Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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My idea of a fine wine was one that merely stained your teeth without stripping the enamel.
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They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
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Baseball has better opening days and All-Star Games than the N.F.L. does. Ours stink.
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So without an original or helpful thought in my head, I just sat for some minutes and watched these poor disconnected people shuffle past. Then I did what most white Australians do. I read my newspaper and drank my coffee and didn't see them anymore.
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Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world's indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.
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One faces the future with one's past.
