Terry Brooks Quotes
We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
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The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.
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Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you.
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If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.
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I'll say - I have four kids! I married a woman when I was 24 years old. She was 13 years my senior. She had been married twice before. I adopted them. I was 24 and had a 17-year-old son instantly, an 11-year-old daughter, a 5-year-old, and a child on the way. So I had to learn how to become a parent very quickly.
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We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.
