Magnus Carlsen Quotes
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
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When I go into a room to write, it's like I'm not trying to say, 'I need to write a song that sounds like Eric Church or Jason Aldean.' I just try to get the best song that's in the room that day. Whatever style or sound that may be, I'm not afraid to attack it at that angle.
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I'm never going to sing the words, 'I want to shut down the club,' never, ever.
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The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.
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People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.
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Ever since I've been 16, 15, that's all I've been doing: playing darts.
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
