John Trudell Quotes
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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It's a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
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In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
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We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys.
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I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my work is about - have been very hard on me. There is an expression in Alcoholics Anonymous called "contempt prior to investigation." I feel many people practice contempt prior to investigation.
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They are going to become more brutal. They are going to become more oppressive.
