Tracy Chevalier Quotes
I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
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I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or not, whether it was on a stage in front of 1,000 people or in the living room in front of my family.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
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We need the nation of equal citizenship. We need a nation that fights corruption, a nation, a state where law rules, a nation where those who abuse their authority are questioned. We want to retrieve our nation, and we want to become citizens in a new world.
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Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.
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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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I'm a huge 'Eastbound & Down' fan. I'm an enormous Danny McBride fan.
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I definitely like taking the dark horse approach and picking people you should not be getting behind, and you figure out a way to get behind them.
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Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.
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The power to tax is the power to destroy.
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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
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When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.
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It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.'
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I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home
