Gene Stratton-Porter Quotes
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
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I've been working on the screen right from childhood and am completely in love with my work. And this experience has taught me that ultimately, it's a good script, good work that matters, whether in Bollywood or in the South.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.
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I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm.
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[on 8/24/04, before entering a Los Angeles hospital for heart valve replacement surgery] If things go right, I'll be there about a week, and if things don't go right, I'll be there about an hour and a half.
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Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.
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In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.
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We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.
