Abraham Cowley Quotes
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Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet... almost like magic shows, if you will.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!
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I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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If I get married I get a tax break, if I have a kid I get a tax break, if I get a mortgage I get a tax break. I don't have any kids and I drive a hybrid, I think I should get a tax break. I'm trying to pay off my apartment so I have something tangible. I actually figured out if I paid off my place my reward would be that I would pay an extra four grand a year in taxes.
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Life is an incurable disease.
