Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes
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If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.
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The process for producing public policy in Congress is flawed. The process itself kills policy ideas through the bypassing of the rules and procedural decisions that limit discussion.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
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I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.
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I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
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Everybody wants to be great at something.
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The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
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History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.
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No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.
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Suddenly she knew. She knew! Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. She had Mrs. Whatsit's love, and her father's, and mother's, and the real Charles Wallace's love, and the twins', and Aunt Beast's. And she had her love for them. But how could she use it? What was she meant to do?
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After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, nor a super-legal-aid bureau.
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'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
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I have so many friends who just have big dreams, and they work their butts off every day to try to make these things happen, and so long as we keep that mindset and remember others, I think we'll be good.
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I think it's really important for Haitians living abroad to go back and help with the development and infrastructure, especially because there are so many international people there.
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Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will never be a perfect time to pursue your dreams and goals other than right now
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We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
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I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.
