Ed Parker Quotes
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
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In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.
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If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
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Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
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One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
