Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
Quotes to Explore
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I believed I was invincible.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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Online is such a brilliant, brilliant way to connect with young readers - even if they just want to tweet, 'Hey, I read your book!' - that, absolutely, I connect with that. But I also treat writing as solitary and keep it to myself as long as I can.
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I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
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You can't pay for healthcare if we're sending a trillion dollars a year to dictators.
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The peace process we all aim for will not necessarily be a result of the mere signing of a treaty or agreement. It must become a matter of our everyday lives, so that peace settles and lasts and becomes supported by everybody. We therefore have to give peace all the required care and preserve it and promote it.
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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
