Ernest Gaines Quotes
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
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I just think it's super amazing that the U.K. fans are so dedicated and loving. I love them, and being with them in person is an amazing feeling.
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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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The study of music was a family interest.
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I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.
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Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.