Terry Brooks Quotes
On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
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My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.
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I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.
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You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
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What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
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We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
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I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders, for family members. I think these things only a parent can teach you.
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And what is friendship but a name,A charm that lulls to sleep,A shade that follows wealth or fame,And leaves the wretch to weep?
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This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography - and of 'sexual perversion.'
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People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.
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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different forms of life take similar, parallel paths in adapting themselves to the same external circumstances.
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Surely if we have learned anything from the history of morals it is that the thing to do with a moral quandary is not to hide it.
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On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.
