Joshua Henry (Joshua Anthony Charlton Henry) Quotes
It's always relevant - moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical and, as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
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I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.
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We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.'
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In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
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Given a choice between being trapped on a desert island with a group of writers or a family of howler monkeys, I think I'd pick the monkeys. At least I could eat them.
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Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world’s policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world’s midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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I always prefer to work intensively on something and then move on to something else. I prefer not to get stuck in something that takes five or six years of my life.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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It's always relevant - moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.
