Susan Orlean Quotes
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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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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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
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I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.
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Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
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...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know.
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There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
