Eileen Wilks Quotes
Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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My parents live in the part of the United States that is Canada. It is so far north that Minnesota lies in the same direction as Miami. They have four distinct seasons: Winter, More Winter, Still More Winter, and That One Day Of Summer.
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We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves; yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
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Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
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I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.
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My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.
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It was like discovering a complete wine-filled cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me….
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It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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My head's a carousel of pictures andThe spinning never stops.
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.
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The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.
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I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.
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Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.
