Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
Barbara Kruger
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
Sally Hawkins
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Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
Natalie Portman
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
Vanessa Williams
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
Qandeel Baloch
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
Nadia Comaneci
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
Victoria Aveyard
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
Hakan Nesser
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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
Rachel Cusk
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I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.
Karl Pilkington
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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
Jack Kevorkian
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Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.
Pat Brown
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I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.
Alafair Burke
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Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.
Chuck Norris
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Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?
Haruki Murakami
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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He told me basically this is your ballgame and the ball is in your hand
Carlos Zambrano
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
