Jill McCorkle Quotes
My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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I'm a science geek. I even have a T-shirt with a glow-in-the-dark chart of the periodic elements.
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
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Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.
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Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
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My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.
