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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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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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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In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.
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I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
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The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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You are within God. God is within you.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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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.
