E. J. Hughes Quotes
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I would like to see America some day.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.
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I am a working mom, so to be able to have a space for my kids as well as a space for my work, it's just great. That is what balance is.
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I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.
