Gary Herbert Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I am an ordinary person.
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I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.
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Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that..'you're not meant to rock after you're 30...you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose.
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I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
