Phyllis Theroux Quotes
Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.
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People take things so seriously.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
Bullies always have another target.
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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
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Why do you bother asking, when you know the answer and you also know that you don't intend to believe it?
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There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
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Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.
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P. 33.
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Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
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The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.
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The married woman as family provider beside the man, often also in place of the man, but always however subservient to the man's dominion - this is the worst form of woman slavery our time has created.
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For me, what really excites me about my characters and what pushes their core is the kind of dark, sad side of life.
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When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
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If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.
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For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.
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Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.
