William James Quotes
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
Quotes to Explore
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I got to say 'Hi' to Dolly Parton, which my mom thought was kind of cool.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
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He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.
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I enjoyed the drama of 'One Tree Hill,' and the opportunity to be one of the comedic aspects, initially.
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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
