Steven Tyler Quotes
A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Time stays, we go.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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We've always believed in our music.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.'
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The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
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Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.
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There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment. When a man is contented he goes to sleep. Voltaire had no chance to be contented, and so he wrote eternally and unceasingly, more than any other man in the history of the world.
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My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.
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A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.
