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I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#critics #hope #i #only #other

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#avoid #being #concept #i #learned

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#brown #clock #correctly #get #good

Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can't stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them. ↗

— Brad Thor

#agents #authors #because #business #business world

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality. ↗

— Brad Thor

#books #i #i think #reality #think

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is. ↗

— Brad Thor

#above #angered #any #anything #bothered

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#alive #churchill #forty #forty years #his

When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles. ↗

— Brad Thor

#expect #grow #grow up #like #muscles

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#alive #aright #better #creature #dead

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#another #break #government #i #injustice