Darby Conley Quotes
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
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So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.
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And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.
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If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.
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It's important for me that I stay in shape, although each year it gets a little harder.
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As an activist who uses storytelling to combat stigma, I have always been adamant that we tell our own stories.
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You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.
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Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone.
Colson Whitehead -
I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.
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I'm not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and hear it in my voice. When working 14-hour days, I have to go home, go to sleep, and wake up in time for crew call. I hate naps. They throw me off the rest of the day.
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One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.
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What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
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You cannot study other planets without referring to Earth and without applying the techniques and the insights of Earth science. And you cannot really do a good job understanding the Earth without the insights from planetary exploration.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
