Hal Duncan Quotes
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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Too bad, Matson thought archly, that George Hoffman didn’t discover more planets in more star systems habitable by us, the frail needs of living, sentient, mentating biochemical upright bipeds which we humans are.
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Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
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How can you close your eyes and say this has nothing to do with me? I'm not speaking about politics. Politics is a terrible thing. Everyone wants power.
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The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
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I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
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I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.
