Jacques Plante Quotes
If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!
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Anyone who posts illegal content on 4chan is an idiot.
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Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.
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When I got into high school, I got really into basketball. I had this itch that I wanted to just move. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew that if basketball became a scholarship or something, it would be a means to that. It turned out I couldn't jump that high.
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If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.
