Brady Udall Quotes
The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at Sunday dinner, the platters and serving dishes floating past like hovercraft, the questions were almost inescapable; Who of us is the most happy? Which of us is his one true love? Who does he desire the most?
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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History develops, art stands still.
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It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.
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Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
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Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is man's self conscious will to destroy his past and control his future. It is modernity at its extreme.
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I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.
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John – I’m trying to find the Island in the West. Sensible – You refer, no doubt to some aesthetic experience.
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I certify to Your Highnesses that in the world I believe that there are no better people nor better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and have a speech that is sweetest in the world, and mild and always laughing.
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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
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Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with my own children. That multigenerational experience around his work is very meaningful.
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I'd like to be on the next 'Six Feet Under,' whatever that is.
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Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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Siri let out a silent puff of air. If he’d had a wife like this he would certainly have shot her long ago.
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That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.
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I got married young, far too young, but it is fine. We are still married 48 years later. I got married at 19.
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The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at Sunday dinner, the platters and serving dishes floating past like hovercraft, the questions were almost inescapable; Who of us is the most happy? Which of us is his one true love? Who does he desire the most?
