Alissa Nutting Quotes
I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.
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Race is still real and you got to recognize it.
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To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.
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We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of crime.
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Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
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You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.
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You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people.
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I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
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I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.
