Terry Brooks Quotes
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
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My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
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My dad and I used to watch 'Ninja Warrior' all the time back when it was in Japan. I would always say, 'I could do that,' kind of joking, but obviously kind of serious.
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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The agenda of burning embassies and treading on flags has its objective, of which seeking an apology for defaming our prophet is not among them at all.
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From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...
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'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.
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If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
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The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.
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History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.
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I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.
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It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
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We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
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You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.
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I grew up on EC comic books and 'Tales From the Crypt,' which were all loaded with humor, bad jokes, and puns. I can have that kind of fun and make these comic book movies but, at the same time, talk about things I want to talk about - whether it's consumerism or the Bush administration or war.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
