John Roy Anderson Quotes
We get a lot of calls at this time of the year when everyone is greasing their reels and tying flies wondering what lakes are being planted with trout.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.
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People are friendlier in New York than London.
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The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.
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My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
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The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.
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We get a lot of calls at this time of the year when everyone is greasing their reels and tying flies wondering what lakes are being planted with trout.
