Walter Hagen Quotes
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
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In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.
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I love taking a character and raining holy hell down on them and seeing how they respond, how they react. It's one of the things I do in almost all my books - my protagonist is put through a very stressful situation that tests their strength and their psychological acuity. That's one of the core components of who I am as a writer.
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If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
