Eric Shinseki Quotes
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
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You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
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Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.
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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.
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Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!
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An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.
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I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.
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Only longing can fill with more of itself.
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Egypt is a sovereign nation.
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That's just a part of your soul. I couldn't be complacent about that no matter how much I wanted to. Sometimes thinking I have to write songs for an album feels like I have to study for an exam. Then as soon as I start writing I remember how much I love the process. We both do.
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African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.
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I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.
