Pam Houston Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
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As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.
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I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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Growing up in Canada, I used to love a walk in the early morning, when the streets are quiet and the sun was shining. Walking in the morning is still very refreshing... and if I can, I will walk to my first meeting or appointment.
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I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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I hate the word 'cool.' It gives me a rash.
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My mother would only let us go to the musicals.
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Chicago has a burly, action-oriented but still self-assured and relaxed confidence to its stride. The city has a lot of wide-open space and all the possibilities that suggests. There's a lot of horizontal grandeur here.
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
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My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
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Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.
