John Gardner Quotes
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.
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I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
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I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.
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The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.
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You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!
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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.
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Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
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Got the eye of the tiger, the lion of Judah
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Now Bart, since you broke Grandpa's teeth, he gets to break yours.
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It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.
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Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.
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I'm just glad to see that Pete (Sampras) shut everyone up last year. That was satisfying. You can't bag on guys like Pete or Tiger (Woods) or Michael Jordan. They can play as long as they want, they can do whatever they want. Nobody should be able to tell them differently.
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Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember, whenever they brush their teeth.
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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.
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So little goes with the body of a man. So much is left behind.
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I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?"
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Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.
