John Lone Quotes
I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.
Quotes to Explore
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
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Howard Stern gave me the best advice about Twitter and the N word. He said maybe onstage people get the intention behind the joke, but a tweet is 140 characters or less, and maybe that's why people overreact. I don't need to rustle any more feathers and lose any investors.
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Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.
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Acting is a form of confusion.
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To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.
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I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.
