John D'Agata Quotes

The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event - the facts about a person, the facts of history - which is not why I turned to this genre.

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• The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
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• As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• I really like just super dry comedy.

  

  Zach Braff
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• I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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• I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

  

  Yuna
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• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
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• There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • People
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• I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
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• I love books.

  

  Gail Porter
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• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

  

  Balthazar Getty
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• If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
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• Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

  

  A. E. Housman
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• Der Irrthum verhält sich gegen das Wahre wie der Schlaf gegen das Wachen. Ich habe bemerkt, daß man aus dem Irren sich wie erquickt wieder zu dem Wahren hinwende.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I love clothes, but I don't know what to put on myself, let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
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• I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time - a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution, where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.

  

  Alan Watts
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• I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
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• Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

  

  James Branch Cabell
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• The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event - the facts about a person, the facts of history - which is not why I turned to this genre.

  

  John D'Agata
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