Doug Flutie Quotes
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If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
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For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.
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Genetically my legs are supposed to be huge. I can't really think about it, or I'll go crazy.
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I wrote a book with my mom and my sister for fun. I had no idea it would be a 'New York Times' bestseller.
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My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.
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A guy that's undersized has to prove himself right away.
