Laurie Graham Quotes
I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.
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I have allowed the media to behave as it wants. ... I am not worried. The truth will certainly be known.
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They say that that haunting memory-face is modeled from my own, as it was at twenty-five; but upon the marble base is carven a single name in the letters of Attica - HYPNOS.
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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
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I try not to intellectualise what I do.
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I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.
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I am very diplomatic when I'm in front of the media or when I am going out for promotions and stuff. But, usually, I'm a very straight forward person.
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I'm not very interested in pops concerts. I'm interested in special events.
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I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'
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Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.
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It's always a bit much, being in a band with your brother. We fight all the time, but it's kind of comical.
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People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.
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It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.
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Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
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I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.
