Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnsonis an English professional footballer who plays as a winger. A product of the Middlesbrough youth academy, he came to prominence after making his debut aged 17 in a UEFA Cup game. He played 120 games for Middlesbrough, also spending time on loan at Leeds United and Watford...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth14 July 1987
CountryUnited States of America
past imagination use
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
change life reinvent
It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.
alternate ate bark bombarded elite existence feels masses mix mount north people propaganda reader sadism starving whose
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.
character cat hard-work
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.
adversity world may
Sometimes in life, things happen that will knock you back. Hell, you may get beaten to your knees but you must never ALLOW this world to knock you down! Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
real imagination darkness
The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.
loyalty taught
. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
people forever ghost
In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
names problem solve
Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything
dog socialism communism
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
wise men piano
Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
stars dark night
The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.
people done
But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.
life flower rose
Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?