Richard LaGravenese Quotes
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I really like sort of disappearing.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.
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Good material is good material.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
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Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
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The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
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Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
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You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.
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What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.
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No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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We sat on the picnic bench, not talking, not looking at each other, but being quiet and okay. The rain was almost gone, nothing but a thin chilly fog. For now, I just wanted to sit on the picnic bench with him and not be anything but fine and uncomplicated.
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I'm not afraid of doing anything. I have no fear. It's made me pretty confident in that I can have a plane flown over my head or I can go head-to-head with an alligator or with a python, and it's all okay and it's so fun.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.
