Norman Maclean Quotes
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A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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I just write mechanical things.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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I've always been able to put things in perspective.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
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You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.
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On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.
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I dreamed there would be a time to come together to "build out the Hope Reformation that would bring certain shifts to the leaders in the Body of Christ." In this dream, I saw the buildings of revival and prayer and there was some divine activity that was good and needed and foundational for what God was doing on the earth.
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They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
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Fortunately, economists open to new ways of thinking are finding novel ways to use supposedly irrelevant factors to make the world a better place.
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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
