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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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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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 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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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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The movie 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' was a sacred text in my household.
Colson Whitehead -
If you come to Georgia, you can open up a company in a day. You yourself can come tomorrow and establish a company in a day, and you're not halted by paperwork.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
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Any way to make a workout feel like playtime is great.
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The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.
