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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Really, if you get to know pigs, they're very moody. They're not sweet little animals at all. That's what I like about them. They get depressed; they get into these snits. They're carnivorous.
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Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics experts held leadership positions in my mother's sorority, and electrical engineers sat on the board of my parents' college alumni associations.
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What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
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In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you.
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I think that the plus-size industry has been great with size diversity, but it hasn't really been great for skin tone diversity.
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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.
