M. J. Rose Quotes
I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
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It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.
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I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
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Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.
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Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
