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 admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
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Heartbreak allows us to also experience joy and love but you have to walk through heartbreak to even know what joy is. Heartbreak is a constant and it is even necessary. It allows us the opportunity of introspection and exploration. Those processes are what is necessary to write and engage in the arts.
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Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.
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What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.
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Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.
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What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
