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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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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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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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.
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Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline. I just start writing and keep notes for what may come. It's an organic process that's usually pretty flexible.
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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.
