Paula Hawkins Quotes
People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Holocaust survivors came to Israel in order to establish a new human society where nobody would be able to hurt them just because they're Jewish. This is both a furious and vulnerable message.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring about the possibility of getting the most we can out of a day as opposed to least in this brief moment we're here.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
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It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'
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No one teaches mindfulness better than Thich Nhat Hanh.
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
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It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.
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People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
