Sharon Begley Quotes
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
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I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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If you like to bake with eggs, you can substitute Ener-G egg replacer, bananas, tofu, or many other ingredients. You get the hang of it quickly enough.
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
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Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.
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My goal … not to go back to Rembrandt … but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.
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Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.
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It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the way J.K. described everything; she's such a visually thinking person. You can't pass that up.
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I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
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My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my personal experiences and elevate them to universal experiences, so that I wasn't writing songs about living on a tour bus or being on a TV set for the first time.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.
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The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
