Sharon Begley Quotes
The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.
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Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?
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Palabras que me dijeron en otros tiempos, las oigo hoy.
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I don't believe in reducing a style and a voice down to a set of descriptions, so I've never done that.
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There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
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Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
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The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.
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I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
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I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.
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A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.
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I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.
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I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'
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I've been playing music since I was born.
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Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.
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Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and the American people. Comprehensive immigration reform will strengthen U.S. security and boost economic growth.
Charles B. Rangel -
Ye come and go incessant; we remainSafe in the hallowed quiets of the past;Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot,Of faith so nobly realized as this.
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I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.
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Theres no drama like wrestling.
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The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.
