J. H. Wyman Quotes
You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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Music is about the performance.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got some of the Wall Street firms a little bit in trouble.
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I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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You just have to learn to get really good at choosing your moments and making sure that your story isn't overwhelmed by the effects, and that your emotional storyline is what's driving the train.
