Darin Strauss Quotes
Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.
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I'm real pleased and humbled by the support that the fans show.
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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.
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It's hard to walk down the street without 'Entourage' comments, and that's all nice.
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The people who are afraid of talking to press are people who have something to hide.
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Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.
