George Perkins Marsh Quotes
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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I don't remember anything from the Bills. It was rough there, but it is what it is. Now I'm here in the Super Bowl, just trying to enjoy that.
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We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.
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In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
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'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted novelist, poet and biographer, has gone very deep into the 'black energy' of Gore Vidal's relentless narcissism and megalomania. Parini envisions an epic battle between Vidal's angelic and demonic sides, yet there's very little of the angel in Vidal.
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We are not working out issues anymore. We are working on a parallel universe, with competing proposals, up or down votes.
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The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.
