S. J. Watson Quotes
There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.
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I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience is just terrific.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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A lot of people have an opinion. If you listen to them too much, your work will get influenced, and you make no one happy.
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In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.
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In Tennessee, you can live off fast food. It's everywhere... But it's nowhere in San Francisco, and I didn't know how to navigate the city to eat.
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What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.
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I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.
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There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.
