Rodman Philbrick Quotes

I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.

Rodman Philbrick

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CreativeSchoolWritingNeverWrite

If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.

John Barrow

YouKnowTryNeverCapable

Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

Andre Dubus III

FatherChildrenMoneyDatingDinner

In both Israel and America, Jews have experienced unparalleled freedoms, achieved great economic success, and exercised appropriate degrees of political power.

Meir Soloveichik

SuccessPowerGreatPoliticalIsrael

In order to produce generalist courses, business school professors have been forced to invent subjects called strategy, called organizational behavior and so on.

Matthew Stewart

BusinessSchoolBehaviorStrategy

Finding a picture of me without makeup is like trying to get the last Gucci bag at Neiman Marcus: not gonna happen.

Jeffree Star

MeMakeupPictureBagFindingGucci

I have as many pairs of sneakers as I have shoes.

Alysia Reiner

ShoesSneakersPairsMany

My whole philosophy has been to let the work speak for itself, because that's really what you want to show.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

WorkSpeakPhilosophyYouWantBeen

When I came to office, in terms of diplomacy and national security, as well as the economy, Japan was in a very severe situation.

Shinzo Abe

SecuritySituationOfficeEconomy

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.

Jules Verne

ScienceWorldMusiciansEngineers

In the beginning of Audioslave, I was very honest. I said, 'We make great albums and write great albums - but don't be under the impression I'm going to be a lyricist that writes anything other than what strikes me as inspiring in the moment.' The lyrics weren't going to be focused politically.

Chris Cornell

GreatMomentBeginningMeSaid

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

Claudio Reyna

SportsTimeCrazyCountryOwnOnly

When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

Brandon Sanderson

ScienceMagicFantasyScience Fiction

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