Lao Tzu Quotes
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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I believe in God.
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Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
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They sell these golf aids that attach to your knee and your head and are supposed to keep your swing correct. It's futile beyond belief. I've never bought any, but I could watch those ads for 24 hours straight. People with straight faces saying this thing will take strokes off your game - that's my peculiar obsession.
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In New York, I have a photo of my parents on their wedding day in 1947. They're beaming at home plate in Houston's Buffalo Stadium. I love the photo because my dad is smiling. He didn't smile much in his later years.
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Taking a risk is always frightening, but I gave myself a set period of time and had enough money to see me through. I operated from the belief that things would be okay, that if I wasn't successful I would find myself a job, but either way, I would be fine.
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People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!
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Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.
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You have to pay people real money.
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God is never too late, nor too early, but just on time.
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You never have to guess where you stand with me.
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Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
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The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.
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Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.
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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
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Excellent soldiers are not furious.
