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 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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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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'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 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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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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My kids are at a point in their lives where I'm a moral compass for them. God help them both.
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It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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You can observe a lot by just watching.
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In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
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No, I never thought I would like cats.
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There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.
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I work mostly in the studio; as I mentioned several times, the leaves are burgeoning and change so rapidly that I have been unable to prepare a single sketch. I am making little watercolors and pastels, I think they will come out all right; in the studio I am preparing five or six canvases, I work on one after another, I am getting used to working that way.
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Potato salad is very personal: everyone makes theirs differently.
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We're in a period of uncertainty about Donald Trump administration policies and the range of what might happen is particularly higher. I don't think that these R&D and innovation budgets will be substantially reduced.
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Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.
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I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.
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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.
