Jill McCorkle Quotes
For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
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Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'
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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
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For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.
