George Strait Quotes
My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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No man fails who does his best.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
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'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.
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My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
