P. J. Soles Quotes
Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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I like to experiment a lot and invent things.
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If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't reproduce. Part of it seems to have to do, as a lot of Christian resistance to gayness does, with a dim view of sex that is not procreative, and that is therefore lascivious.
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Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.
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I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.
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Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order
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Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.
