Abraham Verghese Quotes
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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I'm a 'Clash of the Titans'/'Star Wars' baby. I'm not a new 'Star Wars' baby. I'm not an 'Avatar' baby. That full CG doesn't work for me. I need interactivity. I need to feel the goo. I need to feel people coming out of animatronics and just interacting with props.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
