David Mackay Quotes
By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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When I was in New York, the whole vibe was really just not matching with me. I was kind of super depressed in New York. It just had this vibe of 'Get out,' you know? I would try to get out, and we'd look back and just see the city and feel like, 'Oh, I have to go back to prison again.'
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Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.
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When you're younger and traveling and visiting new countries and cities, that stuff is exciting; it's flashy, it's shiny, but I always had this separation between who I was as a person and who I was as a player.
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Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
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I don't want to have so many exes.
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I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.
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I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been very few times in my life where I've felt down about the way I look or the way I feel.
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In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.
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I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
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My dad is easily one of my biggest inspirations to play this game. To hear people talk bad about me, it hurt me because I know it hurts him, and that's not who I am. I know he raised better, and I know I want to do better.
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He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper.I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover.
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I wasn't a good waitress, but I was told that I was very nice and charming, so people liked me anyway.
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I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
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My legacy as governor was UConn and the cities. This is my passion. When I was governor, I would call Waterbury the center of the universe.
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You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.
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The right wing is appealing to a shrinking, shrinking demographic of angry white people who blame their predicament in life on the fact that there are immigrants coming into the country; it's pretty ludicrous.
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By my mid-30s, I just thought, 'This is not going to happen. I am never going to become an astronaut in the U.K.'
