Derek Kilmer Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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I was an expert horseman.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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Ramona was originally an accidental character I added to the Henry Huggins books because I noticed that none of the characters had siblings. I added Ramona as Beazus' pestering little sister.
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Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
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I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
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Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.
