Cate Marvin Quotes
When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.
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I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
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I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.
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I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
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I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.
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...'progress', in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
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It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.
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You can't just release double albums and expect people to sit there and devote their time to it.
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I would be very uncomfortable doing a safe part. It would make me think something is wrong.
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My only advice is don't tattoo some guy's name on yourself. Ever. I've done it twice. Twice! I'm in the process of getting both removed. It's the most painful thing imaginable.
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I'm a virtual worker. I'm not tied to an office.
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My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.
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Acquaintance lessens fame.
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Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
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Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".
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Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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My view of social media is that it is a set of tools, not a religion.
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When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"
