Stewart O'Nan Quotes
The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.
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A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.
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The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
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We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.
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The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
