Richard Powers Quotes
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
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I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.
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I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.
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My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.
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Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
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So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.
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You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
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Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'
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I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.
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Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.
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I love Pink and Nelly Furtado - the honesty and truth in their lyrics. I also love Kendrick Lamar and Chance the Rapper.
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We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
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When you grow up a fatherless son, in many ways you have to raise yourself. No one tells you what looks good on you, how to carry yourself, or provides the approval. Without a father, you grow up never knowing what you didn't have. There is no intimate model of who you want to become, so it's as if you're always guessing.
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You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
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Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
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Anyone taking heroin is thinking about taking heroin more than they're thinking about anything else. That's the general rule about most drugs.
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I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.
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Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.
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Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
