Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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For me, a line has to sing before it does anything else. The great thrill is when a sentence that starts out being completely plain suddenly begins to sing, rising far above itself and above any expectation I might have had for it. That's what keeps me going on those dark December days when I think about how I could be living instead of writing.
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The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story.
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Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
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My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.
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Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.
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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
