Jon Lester Quotes
My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.

Quotes to Explore
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it.
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I love creating new things. It's difficult to be creative once a restaurant's open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in opening a new place and starting a new menu.
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In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corner burger joint.
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In 2001, Texaco was bought by Chevron, and during deliberations concerning that sale, an 800 page document listing the problems and liabilities connected to Texaco was brought forward at their stockholder meeting by Amazon Watch, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the Amazon.
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My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
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My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.