R. J. Palacio Quotes
A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.
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I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?
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Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.
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At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.
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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
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You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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I'm one of those people who really liked high school. I know that might not be a popular thing to say, but it was fun, and I enjoyed my friends.
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A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
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If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money.
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I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.
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I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.
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A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.
