Paula Hawkins Quotes
When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.
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But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I'm going to ensure that I've packed the right clothes.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.
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A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
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When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.
