Laura Hillenbrand Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I'm extremely superstitious.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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Watch your finances like a hawk.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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There's no business like show business.
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Yeah, I probably got in too much trouble as a youth to be a politician.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
