Gary Locke Quotes
We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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I'm kind of an antsy person.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
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I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.
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Since its founding, I've been friends with ModCloth's cofounders and many of its executives and investors. I have long imagined we would one day belong under one roof with that brand as a force in the future of apparel.
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One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast.
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It's important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem. We want you to help solve it, we want you to be involved.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
