Terry Brooks Quotes
If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
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I hope everyone goes through life seeking knowledge.
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We have to be careful because if one day the world is short of energy, it will be our responsibility. Everybody will ask Total, 'Why don't you have more oil?'
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Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
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Chaos can be incredibly creative.
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After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
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The great thing about interning at 'Teen Vogue' is that there is so much room for growth; interns here do incredible things if they work hard enough and think outside the box.
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If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
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If you're going to build a business that's based on community, your business has to have community in it.
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And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.
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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
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You can always say that it was scarce dollars when Lewis and Clark wanted to go to the West Coast and explore the West. And people complained about it, I understand, from a reading of the history books.
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When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
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If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.
