- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Appreciate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein' something along with hearin' something.
- Capable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
- Nov 07, 2020
Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had one idea that never changed in my mind - that you should use your wealth to help people.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been a show horse or particularly charismatic. I'm just the guy who gets up and works hard every day.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my formative years, I never missed the 'Creature Double Feature' on Saturday afternoon TV, even if it meant switching back and forth between 'Gamera' and the Red Sox. I did a book report on Stephen King's 'Night Shift' in seventh grade. Unrated Italian horror movies became a weekly rite of passage once I hit seventeen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just finished a novel called 'Exult,' by Joe Quirk, last night. It's about hang gliding. I liked his first book, too, 'The Ultimate Rush.' I now know that I never, ever, ever want to go hang gliding, so that's good.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020