- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes Quotes
The exceptions that shape the rule.
"Sometimes" is the hinge word in this collection, softening bigger claims into honest exceptions — including a candid look at why people take jobs in law enforcement despite the risks. For quotes on feeling and mood, see Feel quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get newspapers from Britain and other countries twice a week and read them almost page to page. Sometimes I find I'm reading things I don't even need to read, because my mind is still hungry.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years - in order to grasp the dynamics, resistance and patterns of thought that repeat and impede progress and breakthrough.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching the guitar is a constant source of inspiration. I sometimes think I get more out of the lessons than my students.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the nice thing about being in Mr. Big, is I'm not only the guitar player. I'm the background singer, and so I get to do both of those things. Sometimes we even switch instruments and I get to be the drummer.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020