Jon Meacham Quotes
The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
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I'm from a reserve. A reservation. So I know everybody. Everybody knows me.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
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Remember that the fans want to hear inside stuff about the series; they don't want to hear gripes and grouses about your personal life. What they really want to hear is how the series gets made, and how you interact with your fellow cast members.
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
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The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald. He's wily, talented and-rarest of the rare-a true original. He writes melancholy poetry that actually has melancholy poets wandering around, but don't turn your backs on them, either. I am always eager to see what he's going to do next.
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Trash talk is dangerous, especially when it comes from hearsay.
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Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.
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A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.
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I would describe myself as outspoken. Not political. Outspoken about what I want to say. There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.
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The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.
