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've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the 'Boston Globe' when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.
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I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.
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I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.
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The one who writes a poem writes it above all because verse writing is an extraordinary accelerator of conscience, of thinking, of comprehending the universe.
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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.
