Edwin Paxton Hood Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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I prefer cynical people. Nice guys grow on trees.
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As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
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He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
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There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair
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It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.
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I don't want people to think that someone gives me something to wear, and I'll put it on.
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I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, 'I feel fat.'
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And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were.
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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings. Each calls for different skills. None of these skills, needless to say, are those that go into writing books.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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You just have to do the things you love, and if you're pursuing the things you love honestly, for the right reasons, then you'll get what you want.
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
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Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.
