Paul J. Meyer Quotes
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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My Pa always said, 'Live fast, die laughing,' that's the way to do it.
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I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.
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In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.
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What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents.
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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
