Abraham Verghese Quotes
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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The game has given me so much, and I tried to give so much back to the people who have showed me so much love day after day.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.
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Pop music should be about young people.
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I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.
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When you see me on TV against one of the other girls, they look 10 times better than me, and I'm OK with that. I make a conscious effort not to wear that much makeup and not have my hair so perfectly groomed. That's just not me. I'm not going to be perfect.
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My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.
