Pepper Schwartz Quotes
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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You learn to be comfortable with your body. It's fine and not a big deal.
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Love stories are probably all I've ever been able to write or want to write.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.
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'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.
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I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.
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My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.
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There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again.
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A stroke of the sword that does not hit its target is the sword stroke of death; you reach over it to strike the winning blow. Your adversary's inititive having missed its mark, you turn the tables arround and get the jump on your adversary.
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I'm a technology person, but I'm not a science person.
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You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.
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Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
