Richard Paul Evans Quotes
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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There are 1.3 billion people in China, and they all want a Buick.
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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I worked on a farm for a little bit.
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From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
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Physical development fosters learning.
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I was born and raised in Hawaii.
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The change in consciousness will not take place automatically, just as it doesn't take place automatically in the economy. The alterations are slow and are not harmonious; there are periods of acceleration, pauses and even retrogressions.
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I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.
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People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US armaments corporations, and the gullible American people seem proud of it. Those ribbon decals on their cars, SUVs and monster trucks proclaim their naive loyalty to the armaments industries and to the whores in Washington who promote wars.
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Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
