Olivia Newton-John Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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The great love of my life is music.
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For greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
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A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that next level. They're not based on anyone I've ever met, but they are these extreme versions of something.
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I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.
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When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!
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I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
