Cory Monteith Quotes
I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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I'm the best PlayStation player you'll ever see. I'll play anything. 'Call of Duty,' 'NBA2K,' 'Grand Theft Auto.'
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Other people have hang-ups about what's literary or genre or whatever, and that's sort of not my problem. You're supposed to write what you have to write, and you're supposed to keep moving.
Colson Whitehead -
I always thought of Caesars as the gold standard. I had exactly one date in high school, and my father knew someone who got us comped here for the Sammy Davis Jr. show. We heard 'Candy Man,' 'Mr. Bojangles' - the whole list. And then my date and I went off to the dance - homecoming, I think - where she pretty much ignored me.
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I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.
