Terry Brooks Quotes
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.
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After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
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We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.
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Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
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Coming in, I wanted to be a great player, and right now at the beginning of my career, I'm showing some slight sunshine that I can be the player I want.
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Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.
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You can't just take an aspirin and sit around and have 12 donuts and think, 'I took my aspirin so I'm not going to have a heart attack.' It's really important each person take personal responsibility for their health. You can't keep thinking that someone else is going to take care of it. You have to be part of the solution.
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It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.
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I have my misgivings about 3-D. I don't like the lack of blacks and whites, how it dulls the image, how the color gets corrupted. I don't necessarily like the experience of having heavy glasses in front of me.
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On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky because I come from a different source point.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.
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I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She's an amazing musician and it's an honour to be opening for her in London.
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
