Paul Cleave Quotes
I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.
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I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.
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If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.
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I have a great tip - I have a jumping rope in the house, and I just do ten minutes of it whenever I can. You don't need to work out for hours, just ten minutes will do.
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I would have loved to play Atticus in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' There's no music in it, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't want to do it!
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I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.