Neil Cross Quotes
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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The real estate lobby has prominent allies in both parties. After the last major overhaul of the tax code, in 1986 - under a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, a Republican Senate and a Democratic House - it was a Democrat, Bill Clinton, who signed legislation that restored lost real estate tax breaks seven years later.
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No one faith is necessarily superior to another. All explanations are valid and in some respects when it comes to the big mysteries of life.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
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Their [Phoenix] audience wasn't into us at all. The way most of the venues worked was there was no alcohol on the floor so usually during our set most people were in the lobby getting their drink on.
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To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had.
