Esi Edugyan Quotes
Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.
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He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
Edith Wharton
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
Sam Mendes
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
Patrick White
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I'd like to to do a major pay-per-view match with Seth Rollins. I'd love do a major pay-per-view match with Stardust.
Daniel Bryan
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I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
Adam McKay
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso
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Dolphins football has been a lifetime passion for me.
Wayne Huizenga
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Folks in Alabama seem like folks in Georgia to me. I feel like you can just about combine the two.
Sam Hunt
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We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.
Barack Obama
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The lifetime we've left behind with strangers Promises and lies both have their dangers. I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough So far away, but I still feel your pain.
Ben Harper
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
Walter de La Mare
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In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed
Malcolm Muggeridge
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
Lou Holtz
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Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.
Billy Joel
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If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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Meredith Baxter Birney gets beaten by a rod, in the Lifetime Original, Rod.
Jim Gaffigan
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If not now then when? Oh I can always do it tomorrow. Unfortunately there is no lifetime of tomorrows.
Joe Sacco
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Likeminded folks shop in the same circles.
will.i.am
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Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.
Bernice L. McFadden
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Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.
Carrie Fisher
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Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.
Esi Edugyan