Fletcher Knebel Quotes
Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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Already she knew that the sound of a lock clicking into place would forever be a sensual cue, a promise Rafe would make to her of the pleasure he was going to give her with his hands, his lips.
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Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.
