Kenneth Oppel Quotes
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I am an economist, not an astrologer.
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Having a conversation on a landline is more intimate than talking to someone in person. Your voices are so clear and close - you're in each other's heads.
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For me, going to markets is the best way to understand the soul of a place.
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I think I've gotten to the point in my life where I have to do everything that I'm scared of because you're not going to learn anything if you don't, so you just have to dive in the deep end and see if you can swim.
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There must be something in the water in Minnesota because historically, despite its seemingly homogeneous population, the state has produced some of our more radical political thinkers, and its people have put their prejudices aside to vote for them.
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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
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The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.
