Jon Krakauer Quotes
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.
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I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
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I'm a big fan of Rand Paul; he and I are good friends. I don't agree with him on foreign policy.
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Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
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Anyone involved in planning terror attacks will be a legitimate target for liquidation.
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Little brothers ring fingers get cut up to show mothers they really got em.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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Now I saw clearly by this that the dear God looks only at the heart in time of prayer.
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I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
