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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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.
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If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
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Standing behind a kitchen counter telling people about what ingredients to put in a pot didn't feel right.
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I don't take myself too seriously, but I take the job very seriously, and I expect people to do the job that they're given because this is about all our people, young and old, and it's an enormous responsibility.
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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.
