Tana French Quotes
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
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I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
