Stewart O'Nan Quotes
The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?
Quotes to Explore
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
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I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.
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I am not that big a method actor.
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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.
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There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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As a matter of principle, Republicans do not believe in federal price controls.
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Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.
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I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.
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Father, Father Abraham,To-day look on us from above;On us, the offspring of thy faith,The children of thy Christ-like love.
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We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.
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You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.
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The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.
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Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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Estque pati poenam quam meruisse minus.
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Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people.
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The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?
