Pam Houston Quotes
Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.
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In the old days, a TV sync was perceived as not so cool or whittling away at your indie cred. Now it's seen as much more of an opportunity than a sellout, as a way to find fans who wouldn't have ordinarily come across their genre of music.
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Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.
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Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
