Vernon Howard Quotes
Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.
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Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be on records, and I wanted to be on TV.
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In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.
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I was talking to different labels: Columbia, RCA , Epic. I decided not to sign with Epic even after L.A. Reid offered me a crazy deal.
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To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically, patience protects us from being discouraged.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
