Richard Marx Quotes
I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from it.
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We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.
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My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
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True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.
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I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
