Ernest Gaines Quotes
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I believed I was invincible.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.
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I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.
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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
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I am not meet for petty men, slack their spirit: They know not, they, what day the Chief was made, what hour of the fine day was born the owner, what a beast they keep with its silver head. When we went with Arthur, a sorry strife, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hoar-side.
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Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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"You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."
