John Lennon Quotes
Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
Quotes to Explore
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.
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Trying to please everybody is impossible - if you did that, you'd end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You've just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
