Rain Quotes
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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I'm an emotional person.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.
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Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.
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Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.
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Listening is an essential part of praying. Answers from the Lord come quietly-every so quietly. In fact, few hear his answers audibly with their ears. We must be listening carefully or we will never recognize them.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
