Laurence Yep Quotes
I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
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I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.
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I had a girlfriend (Marita Isaksen) when Europe had the international breakthrough and if there is something I regret, it's not being fair with her and playing it straight. There were a lot of girls on the side. Finally we went separate ways, but we found each other again, and today we have three children.
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Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
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I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things.
