Richard Russo Quotes
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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I would love to study cultures and people.
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I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.
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If I can't be famous, I want at least to be infamous.
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Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm’s Human Resources department.
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I don't think it's a healthy thing in your personal life to go around with that never-sure attitude.
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When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.
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A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
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My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.
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My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.
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I do mind some of the intrusions on privacy.
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I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.
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As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.
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I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
