Joseph Monninger Quotes
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
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I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.
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It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
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Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished. 'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. I can do what I want in all kinds of areas. The expenses are not expenses. I would be stupid to stop that. Work is making a living out of being bored.
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From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.
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If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me.
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It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
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When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.
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I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.
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Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.
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If you’re not going to swim deep with me, then get out of my waters.
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...But some of the ideas are ridiculous. Such as matching the hatch. Of course there are times when you have a fly as alike as possible to the flies on the water. But casting and accuracy and how you present your fly and how fast it gets there and how fast it swims are all more important than matching the hatch.
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When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
