Rick Bass Quotes
A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
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But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.
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The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
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Since Pharaoh’s bits were pushed into the jaws of kings, these dyings-patient or impatient, but dyings-have happened, by the hundreds of millions; they were all wasted. They taught us to kill others and to die ourselves, but never how to live. Who is 'taught to live' by cruelty, suffering, stupidity, and that occupational disease of soldiers, death?
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Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don’t have to obey their own laws.
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When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.
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People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.
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I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.
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Alibaba is Alibaba. We are going to keep on, you know, having Alibaba as our core company in our family.
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Donald Trump embraces his wealth. Hillary Clinton wants us to forget that she made $21.5 million on 92 speeches.
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I think 'She Drives Me Crazy' is hilarious and good.
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Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.
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The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.
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Our board is not compensated and not staffed. We've never taken $1 in expenses. We look at this as public service.
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The New Zealand sense of humor is tough and realistic. Jokes are not surreal; they are about life and death and tough decisions.
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A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.
