Simon Toyne Quotes
One of the things that made me try writing novels was I could take time off to be with the kids. That's the practical side of what I love about the writing life.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
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Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
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We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.
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Even in the tough times, He's still a good God.
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
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Judaism is a whole line of values that have existed for thousands of years, but the democratic idea is a new idea, and significant parts of it stand in contradiction to Judaism.
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
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Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
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To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing.
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In New Mexico... I may have vetoed more legislation as governor of New Mexico than all the other governors in the country combined.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.
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One of the things that made me try writing novels was I could take time off to be with the kids. That's the practical side of what I love about the writing life.
