Terry Gross Quotes
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?
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Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.
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My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
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I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.
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Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives; While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.
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I've had people appear in my life that have helped me. I had more fun. I approached it thinking how would Jack Nicholson, "How would he do it?" So that's really what I did was I created this Gremlin character. So now people come up and they say 'Oh The Exorcist!'.. and I'm like "Did you see Repossessed?" They say either no or yes or whatever, and I say look at this, have a laugh, and then go back and look at a masterpiece .
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Although every writer dreams of getting it right on the first pass, very few succeed.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.
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There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.
