Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

You can't get work without working.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

People ask me, 'Why are you still writing books?' Like I'm still only writing to make money and as soon as I have enough I'll quit and go fishing? I like to write books. It's the most satisfying thing I do.

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

I don't do gossipy interviews because I don't think that helps; I think that's a distraction.

If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

The Holy Ghost is the minister and messenger of the Father and the Son, and He testifies of both Their glorious, global reality and Their connection to us personally.

Judges are appointed often through the political process.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.