Erich Segal Quotes
I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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Competing in my first Olympics in the country where my parents came from is pretty insane. I'm feeling nothing but excitement.
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To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.
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The Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life.
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Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
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Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.
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Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
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You'd be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I'm even surprised, but it's cool. That's the reason it's still around.
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I just know about sweat and frustration. And that what I once thought was impossible somehow doesn't always stay that way permanently. One day it's suddenly easy and accessible, and mostly because I've stopped struggling against it. I've just accepted where I am, keep showing up, and then the change just happens.
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I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
