Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
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'When you learn what God has made you for and how He treasures your company, you are bound to be contented, self-sufficient and happy.'
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Our ordinary abilities will never worship God unless they are transformed by the indwelling Son of God.
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The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.
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Let every man come to God in his own way.
