Terry Brooks Quotes
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.
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I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a real person - is quite an interesting thing. You're seeing all of your friends doing amazing things and you're just there, in a void, feeling a bit stupid. I wouldn't be able to say what I'd have been like without it, but maybe I'd be incredibly high-powered and successful. It also forced me to spend most of my time in my imagination.
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Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
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Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
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You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
