S. J. Watson Quotes
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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I'm not cynical.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Everybody grows but me.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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I think people perceive me completely differently than how I perceive myself. I see myself as a sweet, cosy, motherly type. We all want people to be more glamorous and daring and adventurous than they actually are.
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I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored. But then it occurred to me that musing is a pointless waste of anyone's time, and instead I went off to see if I could find a Baby Ruth candy bar, a far more profitable exercise.
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When it comes to fighting for citizenship that many people take for granted, there isn't anyone I would not talk to. When it comes to immigration, there isn't any question I will not answer.
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My kids will grow up in a house knowing that it's perfectly normal for two men to be in love, it's perfectly normal for two women to be in love. My kids will grow up knowing it's all about love. It doesn't matter who you're with and everyone should have that experience.
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What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
