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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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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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.
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When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.
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If the nobles of the country really have the welfare of the people at heart, they should prevent and forbid music wherever it makes an appearance. For the fact that the people practise music has four disadvantages. The hungry are not fed, the cold are not clothed, the homeless are not sheltered and the desperate find no consolation.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.
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If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.
