Paula Hawkins Quotes
One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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Luckily, I have been offered the chance to play a South American, Hispanic and even a character from the Middle East in films. There are also a lot of TV series in the U.S. that have a strong presence of actors from India.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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Prongs rode again last night... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night... You found him inside yourself.
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I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.
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You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
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One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation.
