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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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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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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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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After we finished 'Toy Story 2,' we talked about going right into making 'Toy Story 3,' because we had an idea that we thought had some promise. But there were a bunch of boring contractual problems going on between Disney and Pixar at the time that kept us from making the movie.
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I was homeless when I was younger and I was suicidal when I was 21. Anything that has happened after that is like water off a duck's back.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
