Rich Piana Quotes
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.
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We were always focused on our profit and loss statement. But cash flow was not a regularly discussed topic. It was as if we were driving along, watching only the speedometer, when in fact we were running out of gas.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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There's always a better way to do something.
