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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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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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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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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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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My stormtrooper suit would chip underneath the armpits and in between the thighs. So they had to do a lot of editing for my costume and shave some areas down.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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It is pretty weird. A few years ago, I was just some guy sitting in front of the internet. Now I send an e-mail or edit an article and it makes headlines around the world … I used to be just a guy - now I'm Jimmy Wales.
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And there was a soldier with a gun that just caught him in time to kill him before he was continuing his shooting.
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Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.
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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.
