Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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Money and good life had never been my goal.
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Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing, we have begun, at last, to understand.
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The world is rapidly getting 'Ahmadinejadized,' if I'm allowed to make a joke. (20 November 2006)
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Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.
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Where is your country? he said.I don't know, said John Grady. I don't know where it is. I don't know what happens to country.
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Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.
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Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).
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I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not a dictatorial thing.
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I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.
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It had to be something real bad. I think he stole music online.
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If you live real good, I can guarantee you are gonna get beat up real bad!
