Heather O'Neill Quotes
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.Heather O'Neill
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
Barry Hannah -
Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
Karen Thompson Walker -
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge -
My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
Dana Priest -
Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
Dana Goodyear -
For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.
Warren Spector
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Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
M. Scott Peck -
So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
Nathan Sawaya -
I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.
Pat Metheny -
The more a man is trained to 'be a man,' the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child.
Warren Farrell -
I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.
David Tang -
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
Al Smith
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It has become impossible to forget 'votes for women,' just as it was impossible to forget the reformation of Luther.
Alice Paul -
As parents, you want to try to mitigate your children's pain.
Busy Philipps -
Allowing children to spew forth whatever is on their minds in the name of openness only creates an illusion of family closeness.
Neil Kurshan -
I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'
Chris Cubas -
Spain is an important historical ally of the United States, and if confirmed, I will add to our more than 200 years of diplomatic history to further our shared interests.
James Costos -
What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
Meg Whitman
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We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
Buck Henry -
The zeal of atheists is the most admirable thing about them.
Dale Ahlquist -
Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
Alfred North Whitehead -
Humanity is the equity of the heart.
Confucius -
I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.
Heather O'Neill