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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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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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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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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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 loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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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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I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
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Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.
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Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight
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I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
