John Grisham Quotes
One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.
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Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.
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In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
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'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.
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When I was younger, I didn't want to come to WWE because I didn't fit into the mold. I couldn't identify myself with the term 'diva.' The divas brand was meant to put a spotlight on the women, but the term, to me, felt more glamorous than me.
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THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
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In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.
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In wartime Shanghai I saw so many horrors … Civilised life is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is, we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.
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Each finding like a friendSomething to blame, and something to commend.
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People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.
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There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
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If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
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First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must 'once in his life' withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting.
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It has been difficult to get back on the saddle, particularly after getting whiplash and concussion, but it's just about understanding that sometimes it's OK to say, 'I don't want to get back on my bike for week.'
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I have an Apple computer, which I use to play Spider Solitaire and do research on the Internet.
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One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.
