John Steinbeck Quotes
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: 'Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.'
Quotes to Explore
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I'm realizing that my childhood is not my daughter's, that I can't heal myself by any actions I take with her - and that it's definitely time for me to go back to my own childhood... with my therapist.
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My first big job was an Abercrombie &Fitch campaign. But my mom wouldn't let me skip school for it, so I missed half of the shoot. When we got there, we realized Bruce Weber was the photographer; we knew we had made a mistake!
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I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.
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Being a sex symbol isn't cool unless you're in love with a girl, and she calls you a sex symbol.
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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.
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One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: 'Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.'
