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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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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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.
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The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.
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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.
