Rick Moody Quotes
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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I've always had very catholic tastes.
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I bat righty.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
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The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
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In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.
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I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.
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The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.
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My style is more moi-centric.
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I actually had a lot of very smart peers.
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My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.
