Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes

Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.

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• I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.

  

  Damian Marley
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• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
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• The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
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• I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
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• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
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• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  

  Jack Gilbert
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• What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

  

  Iris DeMent
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• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  

  Quentin Bryce
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• Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

  

  Kate Bosworth
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• I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
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• Some people, I think, think that because I don't take it as seriously as a lot of the girls do, that I frown upon modeling or think it's stupid. I don't at all. This is my life. I would be nothing without this. But I really don't take it seriously.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
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• A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each other, and all these people living with each other. It's like, okay, we hooked them up in episode 15, how do we bust that, how do we find a new kernel in it?

  

  Dave Finkel
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• Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation.

  

  James Surowiecki
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• Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
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