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 am a bit of a lefty on some issues.
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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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Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
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I guess I'd like people to be able to forget a lot of things and just enjoy the beauty of harmony and melody for a moment.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.
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The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains. For the wise move; but the Good stay still. The wise are happy; but the good secure.
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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.
