Richard Rhodes Quotes
Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
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I get more tired by travelling than anything.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.
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I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.
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If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.
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I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.
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The lawlessness that has swept the country must stop.
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Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.
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I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.
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I think part of it is a tribute to Dimebag.
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The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.
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People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.
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Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.
