John Rampton Quotes
I get work done in half the time if the family is still asleep. When my family wakes up, I've already had a productive morning and am ready to enjoy breakfast with them before I start conquering the rest of my day.
Quotes to Explore
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Funny is an attitude.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.
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Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
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Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.
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Don't be down on that you're not up on.
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Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.
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I get work done in half the time if the family is still asleep. When my family wakes up, I've already had a productive morning and am ready to enjoy breakfast with them before I start conquering the rest of my day.
