Neil Oliver Quotes
I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
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Never give a sucker an even break.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.
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In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells you you want to go towards potatoes, apples, fennel, things that are warm and comforting. And loin of pork.
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This whole science thing of working out if players are a little bit tired just gives you an excuse to leave them out.
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I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.
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A friend of mine and I would go to this dirty little bar in Toronto that has karaoke every Tuesday night, and one night, we noticed that the only other person in there was Derek Jeter.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.
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In our culture, security has become an obsession.
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Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
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I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.
