Patricia Reilly Giff Quotes
The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
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If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.
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adversity is so rough a teacher!
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When you work with somebody you have chemistry with, it's easy and it's fun. You hardly call it work.
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Part of the mystique of shows like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is the idea that they begin with a couple of plot lines, and then a bunch of geniuses improvise dialogue. It's not quite that unstructured and loose. It makes for a good urban myth, but everything's a little more tightly scripted and programmed than that.
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
