John Gardner Quotes
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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No matter whether you're an Olympic swimmer or you're someone who doesn't like to swim, your kids should learn this life skill. You can't be next to them every second, so they must be able to relax in the water and get themselves to safety.
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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
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I know the world is pretty intense, but in my opinion, there's nothing more perilous than being a teenager and watching a raunchy comedy with your parents.
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The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.
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When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself and favoured that spirit with a tabernacle instead of letting any other man do it.
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Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.
