John Requa Quotes
I love 'Love Actually' and particularly the story with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. I think it's possibly the best exploration of infidelity that's ever been done because it really feels accurate and real.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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I've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy.
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You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.
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Do any of us believe in what we are doing here? I doubt it. Her NCO husband least of all. We are given an old racetrack and a quantity of barbed wire and told to effect a change in men's souls. Not being experts on the soul but assuming cautiously that it has some connection with the body, we set our captives to doing pushups and marching back and forth.
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One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate.
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You'd better have a firm foundation when you go out into the world. There's no telling what you'll run into.
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I love 'Love Actually' and particularly the story with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. I think it's possibly the best exploration of infidelity that's ever been done because it really feels accurate and real.
