D.B.C. Pierre Quotes
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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'Ugly Betty' has opened my eyes to the world of fashion journalism - I'm looking forward to going to college for that. Until then, I don't know. Will I appear on 'Glee?'
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I buy very little of what's sold to me in the church. Very, very little.
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As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.
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Viewers can determine what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.
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I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.
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Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
