Patricia Riggen Quotes
I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
Patricia Riggen
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
V. S. Naipaul
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
Tamae Watanabe
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
Edgar Ramirez
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We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.
Zack Snyder
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
Maggie Stiefvater
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
Nancy Werlin
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Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.
Paul Auster
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Pleasure is the test of nature, its approval sign.
Oscar Wilde
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In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.
Jack Keane
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
Hans Vestberg
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Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
Daisaku Ikeda
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
Patricia Riggen
