Mike deGruy Quotes
I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.
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As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two.
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My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
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Winter Wonderland is on my hand, it's kinda rocky
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He's got tons of experience, and he's a very good holder. We felt like it was somebody we need to look at.
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I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful. I'll probably use that information for the rest of my career, in terms of writing novels or writing stories. And then, of course, to help me live a better story, a more meaningful story.
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Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.
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A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
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Life moves in one direction only - and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now- and from this point we must proceed; not from where we were, not from where we wish we were - but from where we are.
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Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.
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I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
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Come on, somebody be brave.
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I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.
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The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
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I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.
