Erik Larson Quotes
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
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In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
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I believe that all nations - strong and weak alike - must adhere to standards that govern the use of force. I - like any head of state - reserve the right to act unilaterally if necessary to defend my nation. Nevertheless, I am convinced that adhering to standards, international standards, strengthens those who do, and isolates and weakens those who don't.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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From far, from eve and morningAnd yon twelve-winded sky,The stuff of life to knit meBlew hither; here am I.
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You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.
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I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.
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I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.
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His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.
