Homer Quotes
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.
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I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
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I pretty much look like an identical twin of my mom.
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I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.
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Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.
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'Is he dead?' Irravel asked.'Depends what you mean by dead.'
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With an arrow in my heart, not a bullet in my back.
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How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
