Gary Paulsen Quotes
The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well and employs hundreds of thousands of people. What else am I going to do? I'm not an artist. I'm not a writer. I'm not a musician. I'd love to be a tennis player or musician. I'm not.
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There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to value highly the fact that a river runs unimpeded for a distance... They are beginning to obtain deep satisfaction from the fact that a herd of elk may be observed in back country, on ancestral ranges, where the Indians once hunted them. They are beginning to seek the healing relaxation that is possible in wild country. In short, they want it.
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The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.
