Brian Lindstrom Quotes
If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.
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The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do.
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Without exception, all of the horrors connected with Christianity’s name came from following the letter rather than the spirit of the law, or by insistence upon literal interpretations - while the spiritual, imaginative concepts beneath were ignored.
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I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
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If I can wheedle
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If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations.
