Pam Houston Quotes
There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.
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Social gaming is not something Zuckerberg could have imagined back when he was creating Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. The change began in May 2007, when Facebook announced it would let outside developers create applications that run on top of Facebook.
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So you're a little bit older and a lot less bolderThan you used to be.So you used to shake 'em down,But now you stop and think about your dignity.So now sweet sixteen's turned thirty-one,You get to feelin' weary when the work days done.Well all you got to do is get up and into your kicks.If you're in a fix.Come back baby,Rock and roll never forgets.
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As a concerned parent, the worst thoughts raced threw my head. We made one last trip to the bus stop before we knew we had to call the police.
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There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.
