John Hersey Quotes
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops.
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I've had so many crushes on gay boys.
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The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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Every little thing I've done so far has been a dream of mine, and I've been able to accomplish it. It's still a dream every day.
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What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
