Tony Hillerman Quotes
A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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Journalism is a team sport. Writing novels is golf: it's you and the ball.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her.
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Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
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A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.
