Jill McCorkle Quotes
I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
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I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.
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I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.
