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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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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When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.
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If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.
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I have a love in my life. It makes me stronger than anything you can imagine.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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With acting, I didn't get much from it.
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It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.
