Josh Malerman Quotes
I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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Delusion (moha) means mental darkness: the thick coat of insensitivity which blocks out clear understanding.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
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I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.
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I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
