Eric Byrnes Quotes
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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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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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
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A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.
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I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
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I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.
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And you learn how to win starting in the minor leagues, by winning day in and day out.
