Dennis Covington Quotes
To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.
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Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.
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The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
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I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.
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It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.
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We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.
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I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregnancy suddenly happened. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility - but luckily, in my case, it didn't.
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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
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It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.
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The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.
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You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.
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Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.
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For whatever reason, the success still blows my mind - that I'm able to talk to people about the music I've written. I always felt like there was something there because you don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically. I don't mess with that. It's more about just music and trying to keep the integrity, I guess.
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When an idea is idiotic to begin with, its applications never make any sense.
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I also don't think all of the revenue will come from digital subscriptions. We have in the New York Times a mix of revenue sources and it will continue to be a mix for quite a while. What makes me more nervous is that we built this newsroom on a really high profit margin that has eroded significantly over the last years. I'm nervous that we won't continue to have the profit margins that allow us to have a big, robust newsroom.
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To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.
