Jean M. Auel Quotes
I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand what is going on when our eyes move across words on the page.
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My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.
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You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.
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Some people called me a fascist. That's mostly over, but there will be more attacks from the unions.
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Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?
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I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
