I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a member of a militia.
It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it’s wrong to think that this means... there is some kind of uniform world culture.
Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.
This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
And to the rest of the world God gave you shoes to fit you So put 'em on and wear 'em Be yourself man, be proud of who you are Even if it sounds corny Don't ever let anyone tell you you ain't beautiful
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
I hate the word gothic but I would like to try doing something like that. A gothic sound, not rock, but gothic. There's a difference.
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.
Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.
Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
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