Mark Shriver Quotes
I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
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I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.
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I thought she was just the Queen and he was Prince Philip, and that was just who they were, without thinking about them as a mother or a father or daughter.
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After 'A Love Extreme,' I thought I must do something that stands up to that - at least. I can't top it. You should never attempt to top something that is magical, because that's just bad magic.
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I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.
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I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
