Ernest Gaines Quotes
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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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 had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
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Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow... he wasn't evil or anything, but he was worthless.
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I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
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I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
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The best kind of art or writing holds up a mirror to society.
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I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
