My children, READING, writing, history, singing, movies, Christmas, cats....
TATTOOS- Aerosmith wings logo on right ankle, profile image of cat and baby--in likeness of my son when he was a baby--facing each other for a kiss on left leg on side of calf. I plan to have my children's names added around this when I finish having kids. My next ink will be a Celtic bracelet around my left forearm with the Celtic/Gaelic words for books, knowledge, power.
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.
-Og Mandino
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." ~Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
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“Fire-Captain Beatty, in my novel Fahrenheit 451, described how the books were burned first by minorities, each ripping a page or a paragraph from this book, until the day came when the books were empty and the minds shut and the libraries closed forever.” ~Ray Bradbury
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. ~Ray Bradbury
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Music
Some of my many favorites--
BANDS: My favorite band--Aerosmith! I have seen them in concert seven times. The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, Muse, The Cure, No Doubt, Fleetwood Mac, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, Guns n Roses, Nirvana, AFI, The Eels,
SOLO ARTISTS: Sinead O'Connor, Rob Zombie, Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Clay Aiken, Stevie Nicks, Feist, Lily Allen, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos,
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Movies
Some of my many favorites--
My favorite movie--Braveheart
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy--especially The Return of the King, All Harry Potter movies, Twilight, The Matrix, 300, Excalibur, Gone with the Wind, The Phantom of the Opera, The Wizard of Oz, Practical Magic, Little Women (Winona Ryder version), Pride and Prejudice (esp. the BBC version with Colin Firth), The Patriot, Apocalypto, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Fight Club, The Ninth Gate, Gangs of New York, Eastern Promises, Blade, Iron Man****** M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN RULES--ONE OF THE BEST MOVIE-MAKERS OF OUR TIME--my favs, in order: The Village, Signs, Sixth Sense, Lady in the Water, Unbreakable....Christmas movies--The Ref, Elf, The Santa Clause, A Christmas Carol, Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas
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Television
TRUE BLOOD, Torchwood, Bones, Dancing with the Stars, Medium, Heroes, Lost, All CSI shows, BBC America murder/mystery shows--Wire in the Blood, MONK, Criminal Minds, Dexter, Entourage, Big Love, Ghost Whisperer, Moonlight, Project Runway, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, Masterpiece Theatre, Masterpiece Mystery
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Books
Of course, I love pretty much ALL BOOKS! Here are some of my favs--
Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice (all Anne Rice books); Harry Potter series--especially "The Order of the Phoenix"; Bag of Bones by Stephen King (all Stephen King), Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett; The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer; Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien; all Jane Austen; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; all William Shakespeare; all Edgar Allen Poe; Charles Dickens--especially A Christmas Carol
Heroes
My kids, my mom, my sis, my cat--Alice, Anne Rice, Aerosmith, Stephen King, Al Gore, Princess Diana, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Jack White, Sinead O'Connor, Madonna, Santa Claus, Shakespeare
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My Book and Heart
Must never part.
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Since I have named my page "Books are Knowledge and Power", then I have to say that BOOKS are the one thing that truly define me, as I am now. But, I am a self-professed Renaissance woman. I have many, many interests which range from BOOKS, movies, art, music to science, history and more. I am a singer (strictly for fun), I am a History and English major in college. I have a personal library in my home numbering over 2000 books--fiction and non-fiction! I am a writer and my greatest ambition is to write a novel--even better if it turns out to be best-selling and/or award-winning. I love my children and believe that they, and all children, are our future. I am very concerned about the environment and try to do my part whenever I can to improve it. I love Christmas--I am a Christmas fanatic actually! I'm sad when it's over and I start looking forward to it even before summer begins--lol! I also LOVE CATS!!!
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Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown
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If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison
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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed
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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. ~Franz Kafka
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To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor,,s prohibited list. ~John Aikin
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Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley
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Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. ~Henry Ward Beecher
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. ~Gilbert Highet
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Mel Gibson, Jack White, Daniel Day-Lewis, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr. (will somebody please give this man an Oscar!), Orlando Bloom, The Dixie Chicks, Clay Aiken, Gerard Butler, Elliott Yamin, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Stephenie Meyer, Shakespeare and Tolkien (I know they're dead--duh!), Quentin Tarantino, Aerosmith, Madonna, J.K. Rowling, Sinead O'Connor, Joaquin Phoenix, M. Night Shyamalan, James McAvoy, I wish I could have met Heath Ledger--RIP...
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You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.
~Stephen King, ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT
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Hey friend! Ricky Young & Red White Blue are playing a free outdoor show at Gaylord Opryland Hotel this Friday July 17 at the Cascades Pool near the main lobby. Doors open at 6pm. It's free to attend, free to park (just follow the free parking signs) and all ages. Bring your swimsuits b/c the stage is right next to the pool!
CHAU VAN TRUONG have been approached by famous producers, directors, actors, and musicians in the entertainment industry and is already contracted with them through my lawyer. Most of your comments had been denied because it is not a salutation nor something artsy. You want me to listen to your music then ask me. If you post something, I will not approve it so DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME!!!!!
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Do you have any special plans for summer? We plan to go to Hurricane Harbor July 3rd
and to Raging Waters at some point, then we
have some family to visit. My aunt and sisters have a pool so I’m sure
we’ll be
getting plenty of pool time. I'm hoping to have a fun summer and be
able to have more fun with less work. I hope whatever you are doing you
have a fabulous summer.
I apologize for taking so long to reply back to your last comment. I managed to catch the flu somehow and as of late I’ve only been able to come on MySpace to check Email.
Your book club sounds really nice but I will reframe from joining unless I can be serious about it, I would want to be involved if I was part of it (I’d feel bad otherwise). Please don’t think that I’m just writing it off though! I really appreciate the invite and I’m excited about joining, I think it will be good for me.
I am on Twitter but I haven’t used it much. The reason for that might be that I haven’t been able to find anything interesting to do on there lol. Thanks for the tip about the book discussions. I will start following you on Twitter the next time I go on. I hope you are doing well. Keep on being you Michelle, you rock!
I haven’t been making the time to read lately and it honestly depresses me to no end. Hearing you talk about how much you love to read inspires me to get back into my reading. You obviously have an undying love for books and to me that is amazing. I know very few people who love to read this much and it’s enjoyable to talk to someone who is this passionate about it.
I've always thought about joining a book club and I alway see your posts about it....is that something you really enjoy?
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