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Larry McMurtry Quotes

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 3, 1936

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People Trouble Make Than Themselves

I have learned that if I only see and deeply appreciate one side of an argument, it means I am probably missing something important.

I Am Appreciate I Have Learned See

It's so nice when you go on to a job and you've worked with someone before.

Job Someone You Go Nice Before

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Work Black And White Money People Me

Gollum is Gollum - though in 'Lord of the Rings' he's 600 years old and in 'The Hobbit' he's 540, so he looks a little bit more handsome.

Handsome Looks More Old Years Rings

When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, 'For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.' So think twice when you buy a vintage ring!

Beautiful Woman Me Desert Energy

If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place.

Good Music Place First Means Sounds

By the end of last year we solved a lot of threads, and it's really good for this new way we're taking the show to really have these new people and these new energies, frankly.

Good People End Year New Way

This is why Alzheimer's is such a terrible disease: the body of the person you love is there, but they've gone - your husband is gone - and they become your child, and you have to look after them as you would a child.

Love Love Is Child Husband You Look

I was a little nervous that people wouldn't take to 'Under Pressure,' because my style and what I embodied had previously been the braggadocious '90s fun rapper type. Before this album, I didn't rap about my life much.

Life Style Fun People Pressure Rap

Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Good Government People Want Meet

I think readers either love or hate nonlinear storytelling, and it's true that it can be more difficult, both to write and to read.

Love Hate Think True Storytelling

I do genuinely dislike Tito Ortiz, and I don't have anything to prove to him.

Prove Him Dislike Anything Genuinely

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