David Grann Quotes
One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
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Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.
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But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
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My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.'
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I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I won't surface until dinnertime. I'm very domesticated in that way.
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The responsibility for violence lies with those who perpetrate it.
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Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! (Chapter 48 - 'At Encinitas In California')
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Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.
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Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.
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We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
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I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
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I was advised by my assistant that the women of the Senate don't do potlucks. To which I responded, 'Of course we do.'
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I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.
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I give and give, and sometimes I can't find me. I'm sure many moms and wives go down that same rabbit hole.
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One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.
