Don Henley Quotes
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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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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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
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I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.
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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
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I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see - one has to keep oneself afloat.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
