Patricia Reilly Giff Quotes
To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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I've never been a partier.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand.
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The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears - I appreciate the details.
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My mom was the strongest woman I know.
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
