Brigitte Bardot Quotes
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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The U.S. government engages with many countries around the world in official dialogues on human rights.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
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I'm not sure if I'm going to get into coaching. I'm sure I'll stay in soccer somehow.
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In my head, I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, 'Damn, that's a pop song!' I can practice in front of the mirror with my hairbrush for as long as I want to. But when it finally comes out, it sounds avant-garde to people.
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All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for.
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Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
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Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
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In Hong Kong, in our generation that started out in the 1970s, being a director wasn't a big deal. We didn't even have director's chairs. We weren't particularly well paid. The social standing of a film director wasn't that high. It was a sort of a plebeian job, a second or third grade one. And the studio heads are always practical, there's never any fawning because someone is a director. There's very little snobbery about one's position as a director. The only ones people treated differently were those that were also stars; or the directors who also owned their companies.
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Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I learned that fashion was about more than fancy images. That there was a business side as well.
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The world is safer without Saddam Hussein. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.
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I never do anything by chance.
