John Robinson Quotes
Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
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I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
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I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as hard; it doesn't get easier, but that's why I love it: because it's a challenge every time. I also feel like I'm learning new ways.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I'm very protective of how much I let people see.
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I'm very excited. The 12-year-old me is kicking myself.
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Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?
