David Anthony Durham Quotes
Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I’m in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.
Quotes to Explore
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
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I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
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If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.
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Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
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Persuasion's flowing well.
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There are things stronger than the strongest man.
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There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love were wide, and they caught the rain and the snow. We would be okay, the two of us together. We would be okay.
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
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Most of it's about the quickness involved. Just the activity to the ball. Loose balls, tip-ins, all those little things make such a difference in a game. And that's a matter of seconds, and I think a lot of that is about energy.
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Zachary Jernigan can't write a bad story. He couldn't even if he tried. Each and every time I start one of his inventive, carefully crafted, thoughtful and mind-bending tales I know I’m in for a treat. This collection is sci-fi at its intelligent best.
