Jojo Moyes Quotes
Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.
Quotes to Explore
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In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
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I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
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You may have made some mistakes, but just like a parent helps their child when they are learning to walk, God will help you get right back up anytime you fall.
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It was so amazing to fall crazily in love and get married and have kids.
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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
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If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.
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If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.
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World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.
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I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.
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A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.
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They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.
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Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.
