Jack Finney Quotes
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.
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My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.
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Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.
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Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
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I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.
