Charles Portis Quotes
You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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I think everyone is born funny. Sadly, some lives beat it out of them. I don't know what allows someone to keep being funny and actually make a career of it.
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I can't control what goes on; that's not my responsibility. My responsibility is to go play football. ... I take it as a low blow. I had to work. It wasn't handed to me, I had to get out and grind. It's a golden opportunity [to prove people wrong].
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The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.
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Beautiful. All this suffering at the moment of destruction.
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I'm proud to be a member of a society that is based, whose values are based on Christiany, Judaism and humanism.
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You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.
