Barbara Graham Quotes
Fondle the woman in your life once for every thousand times you play with your private parts. That should be just about right.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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The one thing a lifetime in the newspaper business teaches you is pace - you spend all your time trying to make sure that the reader's going to finish what you're writing.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
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I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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We're not putting this one behind us. I'm not so into the standings and all of that. I'm into the quality of play, and for two games in a row, our defensive quality of play was not good enough.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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Fondle the woman in your life once for every thousand times you play with your private parts. That should be just about right.
