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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I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.
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Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
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My mom's chicken, with rice and gravy was my favorite dish as a kid, and it still is now. That's my favorite meal from her or from anybody. It's a family favorite.
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She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires
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If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.
