Lyall Watson Quotes
Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.

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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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I'm a huge 'SK-II' person. I'm their Malaysian spokesperson. But I truly love their products - it's not just something that I endorse. I always moisturize with the SK-II Essential Power Rich Cream.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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I like tough relationships. I think relationships with conflict are good for you - you learn. But you can't listen too much. I have a strong point of view, and it's important that I fight for my ideas.
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When I joined the Truckers, I was 21 and riding in the van with guys who were a generation older than me.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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There was only one thing I wanted out of life. That was to be the champ.
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Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.