Katharine Tynan Quotes
Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
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It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.
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Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
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When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
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There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.
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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question.
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We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.
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The region is going through a very difficult process and I think it would be better to make constructive statements to see if we can cool down the situation.
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I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
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I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
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Relationships change us and make us grow.
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Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of something academic with the lights on and you're going to get a lecture. I'm looking to blow my audiences away by giving a fine, dramatic performance and reminding them of why they love stories.
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The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.
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When I look back, I only do so to see what I've done in my past - my gold medals and the Championships that I've won. Really, I just look to the future and hopefully winning even more.
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My position and the state will never allow me to become a dictator, but an authoritarian style of rule is characteristic of me, and I have always admitted it. You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.
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Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
