Edward Joseph Young Quotes
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.
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Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.
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My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.
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To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.
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There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'
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You don't want to be a gimmick. You don't want to be a set piece, where people go, 'Hey, that's weird.'
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I love the Beatles, but I don't listen to them at all regularly. Most of my friends are bigger Beatles fans than I am. I respect them, and I love them - 'Abbey Road' is probably one of my favorite albums, but I don't think I've ever listened to the 'White Album' the whole way through.
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I don't have one polarizing message. It is just about being consistent over the years.
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Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main contours of New Labour policy. This has been a government that has majored on hyperbole, but in fact, from the outset it was hugely timid and cravenly orthodox.
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Mankind's expectations have to be greater than ourselves and that the further out there we go, the more we find out that it's about you and me.
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My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
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When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.
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Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.
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It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.
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A tender smile, our sorrows' only balm.
