William Lewis Trogdon (William Least Heat-Moon) Quotes
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I do not support a North American Union. I disagree fundamentally with that, and I think the United States should be governing itself and not being governed by multilateral unions, the United Nations.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.
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There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
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I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way.
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Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
