Garth Greenwell Quotes
My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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I think the most challenging part of being a performer is just making sure that people know that when you get up there every night, it's unique and that you care.
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I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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We dare not supress thoughts, but when they are expressed through violence, like the idea that power comes from the barrel of a gun, they must be dealt with and met accordingly.
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?
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Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
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Command of English, spoken or written, ranks at the top in business. Our main product is words, so a knowledge of their meaning and spelling and pronunciation is imperative. If a man knows the language well, he can find out about all else.
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People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people!
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I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors.
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My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.
