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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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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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human 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 am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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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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I'm not - I'm not going to define people by labels: who's a real Republican, who's not a real Republican.
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The number one thing small business needs is to get more customers. Spend more time serving existing customers and getting new ones. The challenge for small business is knowing where customers are and reaching them effectively.
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I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.
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It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project.
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Freedom was wonderful beyond relief. But with it came that bitch, Duty.
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We're off the script We're off the lease We can't catch any decent sleep We don't live here anymore
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When I was 6, I held on to my mother's skirt, screaming that I wanted to be a dancer. She enrolled me in an academy in Madrid when I turned 8.
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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'The old man forgot one thing. This England of his is Christian and Anglo-Saxon. And so are her corridors of power, and those who stalk them guard them with jealousy and venom.
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Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.
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We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.
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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.
