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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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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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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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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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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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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The Chinese enjoyed the spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking the world was anything else.
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Together we can decrease the level of violence, raise awareness of our activities and save lives around the world. The impact of a day of global ceasefire and non-violence cannot be underestimated.
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I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
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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.
