Geoff Thompson Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.
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I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.
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I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty.
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All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.
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We should be firing bad teachers.
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So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
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The clearest way to know whether you are with a poor person in America is not by the logo on the clothes, because we all wear pretty much the same anymore. It's by looking into their eyes and seeing whether they look into yours, and seeing what kind of teeth they have.
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Playing live and making a living from music was always the only goal.
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The person that angers you most, teaches you best
