Deb Caletti Quotes
I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call.

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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'
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My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.
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I tell folks when I walk into a room, when I leave, you may not like me - you may not agree with me - but by golly, you will not misunderstand where I am. I get things done.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
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I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call.