Karl Marlantes Quotes
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn't have gotten married.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
