R. A. Torrey Quotes
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright embarrassing.
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My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.
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To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.
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Success isn’t something that happens overnight: it’s a process. You have to nurture it along with continuous care, and the best way to do this is to have the right people working with you - not for you, but with you. I can dream alone and strive alone, but true success always requires the help and support of others.
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My great-grandmama told my grandmama the part she lived through that my grandmama didn't live through and my grandmama told my mama what they both lived through and my mama told me what they all lived through and we were suppose to pass it down like that from generation to generation so we'd never forget.
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I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.
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If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.