Joel Chandler Harris Quotes
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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I buy way too many books.
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I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
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It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn't own horses.
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I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.
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What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.
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Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.
