John Shirley Quotes
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
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For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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The way a character sounds is so important to how you're going to play him.
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How do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!
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We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?
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Music is an important part of my writing process.
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I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
