Stewart O'Nan Quotes
All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
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I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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I'm a normal consumer but try to do the best I can. I try to buy locally, and I mostly avoid supermarkets.
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Mac continued to write scathing commentary on assorted hypocrisies in high places and low, without which hypocrisies, he cheerfully conceded, civilized life would be impossible.
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'No interviews. No panels. No speeches. No comments,' he Wasserman ordered his agents. 'Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.'
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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
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I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.
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In the morning, my alarm clock is a chorus of lemurs yelling!
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The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
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The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.
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To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
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Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.
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The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment.
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Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.
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All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
