Jimmy Buffett Quotes
That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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To people who traditionally charge $10,000 for a 3D animating app, we say you should be free-to-play and generate a revenue stream. Think of a 3D modeling package almost like an RPG.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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Where you live matters: there's only one MIT. And there's only one Hollywood and only one Silicon Valley. This isn't a coincidence: for whatever you're doing, there's usually only one place where the top people go. You should go there. Don't settle for anywhere else. Meeting my heroes and learning from them gave me a huge advantage. Your heroes are part of your circle too - follow them.
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We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.
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That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.
