Jake Arrieta Quotes
I'm probably throwing down close to 10,000 calories. And then I don't eat for three or four days.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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If you don't like me, it's your problem.
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Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.
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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.
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Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.
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He was once our trumpeter, now his bugle's dumb, Pile your arms beneath it, for the owlet light is come, We'll wander through the roses where we marched of old with Peterkin, We'll search the summer sunset where the Hybla beehives hum, And - if we meet a fairy there - we'll ask for news of Peterkin.
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We live in a society that celebrates familial connection above any other kind of relationship. We are shown photos of our great-grandparents and encouraged to marvel over facial similarities. We are told to take pride in our bloodlines, celebrate our ancestry.
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Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he wishes you to represent a poor man, do so heartily; if a cripple, or a magistrate, or a private man, in each case act your part with honor.
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You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
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I'm probably throwing down close to 10,000 calories. And then I don't eat for three or four days.
