Corey Dillon Quotes
No doubt I'm more comfortable. Last year I was kind of learning on the fly; this year I have a better sense of what to do and what not to do.
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I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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Time stays, we go.
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There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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My mind thinks in wrestling. As I'm thinking of things and my mind is being creative, it constantly keeps going back to wrestling. That's my inspiration, and to not be able to express that puts me in a spot where I almost don't know what to do with myself.
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Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
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Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
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You like me, you don't like me, you love me, you hate me. I'm gonna be me, but one thing I have to back it up is skills.
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It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.
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There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure.
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I don't have time for the people who try to pull me down. I'm too busy thanking the people who lift me up.
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It's a film called 'Bobby,' ... It's about the day that Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel, and it takes place at the Ambassador. It's essentially about a cross-section of various people from all walks of life, at that hotel on that day, all leading up to his speech and him being assassinated.
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I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate. But most of the stuff in my novels is entirely invented, ninety-five percent. And even when I do borrow something, it becomes fictionalized.
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No doubt I'm more comfortable. Last year I was kind of learning on the fly; this year I have a better sense of what to do and what not to do.
