Leonard Boswell Quotes
The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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I just want people to finish the book and say, 'I was entertained.' When I set out to do it, I had no deal in place. I knew it would be tough. I read somewhere that John Steinbeck was turned down 22 times on his first novel. But I was just going to do it.
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I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.
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I'm a huge believer in the importance of vacations for leaders, entrepreneurs, and everyone else. I work extremely hard - usually 70+ hours a week.
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I don't really like conflict at all, and I really find conflict pretty devastating. I try to avoid it at all costs.
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The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.
