Barack Obama Quotes
Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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The patient decides when it's best to go.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.
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I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!
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Being a wife-mother and doing a job, it's the toughest damn thing in the world. But we want it.
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I wasn't from the streets, but I was in the streets. I had a good family, nice home - you know, I can't say I grew up with nothing... but I chose to hang in the streets.
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Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.
