Lawrence Block Quotes
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
Quotes to Explore
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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I love New York.
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As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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I think there are many who would like to be saved but have been presented the faulty idea that repentance is turning from sin and therefore they are convinced that they cannot be saved. Oh, if we would only make salvation plain and explain to men that we are not saved by doing anything; rather we are saved by trusting in what Jesus has already done.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both.
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New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
