Larry McMurtry Quotes
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
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An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.
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The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
