Quentin Bryce Quotes
Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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Audiences like to see the bad guys get their comeuppance.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.
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He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.
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When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
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Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.
