Poe Ballantine Quotes
One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighbor, who I believe was murdered. I had gotten to know and admire him by listening to people talk about him. He seemed a wonderful person with much to give.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I appreciate America for all the opportunities it's afforded me.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.
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I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.
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When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.
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One evening, after my wife and son had gone out for a walk, I decided to have a talk with my neighbor, who I believe was murdered. I had gotten to know and admire him by listening to people talk about him. He seemed a wonderful person with much to give.
