Deborah Wiles Quotes
I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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We are born intuitive, which is why for most people, their intuition is actually the source of their greatest suffering.
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The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.
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The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like... I make time to clean my house, to care for my pets, to visit my extended family, because those things are important to me. Same with helping others.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.
