Katharine Weber Quotes
Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
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I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.
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I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.
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I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us
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These days I seem to think a lotAbout the things that I forgot to doFor youAnd all the times I had the chance to.
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Neo-conservatives are unlike old conservatives because they are utilitarians, not moralists, and because their aim is the prosperity of post-industrial society, not the recovery of a golden age.
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He is Mr Piano Man, I am Miss Piano Man.
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When I do think, 'Man a fucking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars' worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high. (Scar Tissue, 2004).
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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Only the free mind knows what Love is.
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Dad was never a Mr. Mum-type of person who'd stay at home. It was a big thing when he was home - he was a circus.
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I have been looking after the children. My wife has taken time off.
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It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
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Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.
