Jonathan Stroud Quotes
When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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Certainly, grades only matter so much when you're in Hollywood. But I became an utterly motivated, devoted, committed student. I was a good student because I was convinced that it would somehow help me in my quest to become a filmmaker.
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I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
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I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.
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Quarterbacks are always ready.
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Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.
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If you love Barry Manilow, you're gonna love the Insane Clown Posse. Love 'em. They're exactly... well, they're not EXACTLY alike, but they're a little bit alike...
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Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
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You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.
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When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.
