Brad Meltzer Quotes
I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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Running for me is a sport. It's not a joke. It's serious.
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When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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'Yes,' he said, 'intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter. A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.'
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After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
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As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.
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'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother's death.
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I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.
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I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.
