Terry Brooks Quotes
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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I love writing music for film and TV, but putting it into a video game is twice as fun because it needs to be repeatable and joyous.
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I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
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If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
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What you write chooses you.
