Darby Conley Quotes
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
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To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
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When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
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From Shakespeare to Robi Thakur, everyone has written stories about people and incidents around them. There is no creativity minus reality irrespective of how flowery or abstract you make it.
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
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If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
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I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.
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In ice dancing, you cannot decide your result. You just have to do your best, and you can't decide if you win or not.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.
