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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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
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I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.
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Sometimes it's tougher against bad teams because you can't really get a read on them.
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It was the old New York way of taking life 'without effusion of blood': the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than 'scenes,' except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.
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I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.
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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?
