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Peter De Vries Quotes

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993

Topics

Morning Write See Inspired I See

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

Life Live Society You Know Mean

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

Step World Book Magic You Real

I think, taking too long to work on a record, you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour, and I write, and I write.

Work Myself Think Long You Lose

The fact that I am able to live a life and act and to do all of those things and support myself and my family is a gift.

Michael Cudlitz

Life Family Live Myself Support Act

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Stephen Grellet

Kindness Good Me World I Can Way

Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe.

Life Growing Up Choices Texas Look

It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.

Car Song You Artist Country Now

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

Love Cooking Think Someone You Nice

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

Jonathan Edwards

God Better Enjoy Heaven Go Here

Because I've always been a fairly nervous person.

Person Nervous Always Because Been

I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.

Christine Lavin

Play Paul Julia Julia Roberts Newman

As a professional selfie taker, I know my angles. And I know how to look 20 lbs. heavier and 20 lbs. lighter. If Instagram wants to tell me I've lost 60 lbs. in one week, then damn, I look good.

Good Me Week Look Professional Know

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