J. R. Moehringer Quotes
Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Everything can be satirized.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
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The Old Vegas is gone. It's not that it's necessarily better or worse; it's just totally different.
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Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.
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Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
