William Hone Quotes
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.
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Divorce is so common and accepted in America that beating myself up over it may sound ridiculous. But I was raised to believe that divorce wasn't an option; to me, divorce equaled failure. I wasn't able to change that equation until I found myself in the right relationship.
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I think no matter how successful our lives may seem to the outside world, we all have our personal struggles.
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.
