Rene Ricard Quotes
I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
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I believe in God.
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I do believe that the original sources of all religions should be taught, because with that we will find our similarities, not just our differences. I believe that if Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus, and Moses all got together they would be best of friends because the spiritual basis of all religions is something that builds unity.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
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I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.
