Craig Claiborne Quotes
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
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Even if you can't relate to what I'm singing, I hope you can believe in it and see it as something that it is real.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
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Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.
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I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
