Gary Owens Quotes
Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.
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I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.
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Writers don't write about people they know. They write what they know about people.
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Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
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Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.
