Tabitha King Quotes
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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I saw this documentary he did years ago called 'Fade to Black.' I was always a Jay Z fan - I liked Jay Z - but after I saw that documentary, I loved Jay Z. I realized how intelligent he was.
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I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
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If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
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Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.
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In a word, the heavy weight upon his spirits kept everything in order, not merely within his own system, but wheresoever the iron accents of the church clock were audible.
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Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up - execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and he reappears in your children.
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Children give life a reason to be - they make life.
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Now, whether my not asking for good things to happen to me is subconsciously intended to win me brownie points with God is something I can't answer. But I do feel the need to give thanks and also not to feel hypocritical by asking for things when I have doubts that God would answer me.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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We should set our eyes on the future. The political differences between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan should eventually be solved step by step, and we can not let these problems hand on from generation to generation.
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As long as I can make a phone call and do a WhatsApp, I'm fine.
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I've loved all of my time here.
