Barry Eisler Quotes
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It's the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.
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One of my favorite authors, Garbrielle Zevin, she did a book called 'Elsewhere,' that is one of my favorites, and I think they're making that into a movie too. I really want to be in that one just because the story is so beautiful.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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From being a teacher and educator, I see the state of the music through the eyes of an 18-year-old coming on to the scene, and we want to make sure it stays intact. With my generation, it's our duty to do that.
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The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
