Piper Perabo Quotes
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
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The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
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For a brief time, I was here; and, for a brief time, I mattered.
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It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
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Don’t overestimate your familiarity with technologies you barely understand. It could be your undoing.
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I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave from shore. I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding it's time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.
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There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.
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I decided that I wanted to do my own collection about a city that I knew something about.
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I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
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That's what I think we're all looking for - an honest love wherever you can find it.
