Paula Hawkins Quotes
The journalism, I was a financial journalist - it's very good training as a writer. You have to write for deadlines; you have a certain economy of phrasing. As a training ground as a writer, it's fantastic. I also think it teaches you to be observant, to listen to people, and gives you an ear of dialogue from doing interviews.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I am a just man.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.
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My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.
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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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The journalism, I was a financial journalist - it's very good training as a writer. You have to write for deadlines; you have a certain economy of phrasing. As a training ground as a writer, it's fantastic. I also think it teaches you to be observant, to listen to people, and gives you an ear of dialogue from doing interviews.
