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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I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it.
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I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.
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Children always turn to the light.
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Children in urban communities suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome in higher proportions than veterans, and they need therapeutic outlets, which arts and drama has proven to provide.
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Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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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.
