Zane Grey Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.
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Little Odessa. Of all my movies, it's the one that I still really love when I watch it and I'm pretty happy with what I didn in that.
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In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.
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It is one of those contradictions of life that although measurement always carries uncertainty, the uncertainty in measurement is rarely discussed.
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'If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.'
