George Meyer Quotes
Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
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I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness.
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I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
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I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
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Com'รจ in proverbio, ognun corre a far legnaAll'arbore che 'l vento in terra getta.
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When I was losing, they called me nuts. When I was winning they called me eccentric.
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When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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'Bosch' was a really cool experience.
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You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.
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Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
