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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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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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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The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish.
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I don't think I got thin. I think I got healthy.
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I never tried Pokemon Go. I figured I'd get too addicted to it. I did play Pokemon Snap on Nintendo 64, so that window is closed for me.
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Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!
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I hate white people writing for black people; it's so offensive. So we go out and look specifically for African-American voices.
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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.
