Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
Quotes to Explore
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
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I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.
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I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.
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Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.
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Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God.
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Growing up, I always considered the Grand Ole Opry to be hallowed ground.
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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.
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When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
