Earl Lovelace Quotes
She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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If it is something that I want to do, then I don't think the audience will hate it. Unless I turn into a megalomaniac and start thinking that Salman Khan can do anything.
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Sometimes I'll be listening to NPR at the gym, and I'll hear them say, 'Oh, Donald Trump did this today.' And I'm like, 'What?' All of a sudden, I have more energy than if I drank an espresso.
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We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.
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Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.
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She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim.
