Jill McCorkle Quotes
You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.
Quotes to Explore
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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NATO remains the cornerstone of Atlantic security.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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I love wearing dresses that hug the body, but then, at the Oscars, I had a big dress, and I really loved that. It's a style I never thought I would wear, but I saw the dress, and I was like, 'Oh my God, that's it!'
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
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I don't know what a softball question is. All I know is I have no agenda. I ask short questions, and I listen to the answer.
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We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
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As the Spanish proverb says, 'He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual.
