R. J. Palacio Quotes
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.
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During my teenage years, I rebelled and ate everything under the sun, but when I was 18 or 19, I became vegetarian-focused and got disgusted by meat.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. People necessarily wield military and economic power.
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That got me to L.A. and reintroduced me to my future husband.
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It just as easily could have gone the other way.
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Just follow the day and reach for the sun!
