William Lewis Trogdon (William Least Heat-Moon) Quotes
To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.
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The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.
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I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.
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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
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Europe and European identity is rooted in Christianity.
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No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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In music, you learn a lot of things when you don't know what you're doing.
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All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.
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No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
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Animals are indeed more ancient, more complex and in many ways more sophisticated than us. They are more perfect because they remain within Nature’s fearful symmetry just as Nature intended. They should be respected and revered, but perhaps none more so than the elephant, the world’s most emotionally human land mammal.
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Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are.
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
