Jan Karon Quotes
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
Quotes to Explore
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Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I'm very open-minded.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
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We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it.
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When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.
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There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
