Lawrence Weschler Quotes
I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I've learned... that everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
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Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.
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I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
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I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.
