Emily Susan Rapp Quotes
Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
Quotes to Explore
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
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Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.
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The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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It is my job to step into different characters.
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If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
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I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
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Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.
