Charles Tomlinson Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I do not choose to run for President in 1928.
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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
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Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.
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During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.
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My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.
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False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.
