Stuart Appleby Quotes
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Pain is never permanent.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.
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Dance as if no one's watching, love as if it's never going to hurt.
