Ernie Pyle Quotes
One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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Around-the-clock support is crucial for children receiving palliative care. They and their families often need help every hour of every day, both in hospices and at home.
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Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
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I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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I just feel like I influence people because I'm like - I was practically homeless.
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There was no way to predict that 'This is Us' was going to be what it is, that it would really resonate with people.
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I have always been involved in my school's music program.
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'A slave is one who must produce wealth for another,' the Brain said. 'There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time. Time. Are we slaves because we have given you more time to live?'
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Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been lost in time.
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One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.
