Laura Hillenbrand Quotes
I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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I don't eat red meat.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.
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If I ever come back and coach, I'm never huddling again!
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Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.
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"I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.
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I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years.
