John Gourley Quotes
It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music and loved writing songs. I always thought I'd be in the background and, if I did get into a band, be a backup musician.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
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If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you're there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly... then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.
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When I was little, my father was one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly - and how it happened to him was always a great mystery to me - he wasn't a star anymore; he was on the fringe. From the time I was 14, I was always conscious of a sense of worry, of terrific insecurity - agents, phony talk, the waits for the phone to ring.
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Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.
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With 'The Vampire Diaries,' it's not just a tease, especially with the relationships. You're not sitting there going, 'God, I wish they'd get it over with and kiss!' There's no teasing, they jump right into the action.
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When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature.
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It's funny, because I had no intention of being in a band because I was so shy. But I loved playing music and loved writing songs. I always thought I'd be in the background and, if I did get into a band, be a backup musician.
