Rod Stewart Quotes
I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.
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Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.
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As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.'
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My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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Decadence is wonderful.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.
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You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.
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If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do.
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When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,'Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away.'
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A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.
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A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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Is there anything about the JonBenet Ramsey case that isn't weird and disturbing?
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When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.
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Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.
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I'm definitely a boot-scootin' kind of guy.
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I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.
