Ernest Gaines Quotes
Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
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We could spend time together during the day and just kind of talk and enjoy each other and enjoy the moment. But it was interesting we both knew that once you walk through the gates of that stadium, then it was on, the game was on.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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Faithfulness had taken me by surprise. I wondered how long the phase would last.
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Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely good news.
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America is the paradise of lawyers.
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Monetary policy causes booms and busts.
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Economic integration is the path to riches and peace.
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I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.
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The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.
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You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.
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Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.
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We were broke in a way that only kids can be broke. Our toes were black with dye from wearing boots that weren't waterproof. We had infected ear lobes and green rings around our fingers from cheap jewelry. No one ever even had a chocolate bar.
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Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
