Peter Straub Quotes
I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.
Peter Straub
Quotes to Explore
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
Victoria Woodhull
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
Park Chan-wook
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
Gavin O'Connor
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
Camila Alves
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It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
Hannah Kearney
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
Rachael Taylor
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
Sam Abell
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
Ma Jian
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
Yolanda Adams
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
Maeve Binchy
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
Walt Mossberg
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My son, whoever wishes to keep a secret, must hide from us that he possesses one. Self complaisance over the concealed destroys its concealment.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nixon probably was a nice guy.
Bill Ayers
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I enjoyed playing, and I've got a full and happy life now, so it's not like I'm looking back longingly at my time in football.
Chris Borland
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I didn't believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn't have those awful saints chivvying you around.
Jennifer Johnston
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
Nadine Gordimer
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I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.
Peter Straub
