Pat Conroy Quotes
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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I was funny around my family. My family, they're pretty funny, too.
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As a kid, I got teased about my unibrow. Now I love my brows.
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Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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I always love listening to Bob Dylan. 'Blood on the Tracks' is one of my favorite albums.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I love the energy over here in the U.K., the hospitality is insane.
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I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
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I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
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I do a lot of writing about my family.
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People have drawn me, which is super cool. I'd love to print some out and put them on my wall.
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I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.
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I hope that somewhere in Small Town, U.S.A., a 15-year-old kid looks to me as a role model the way I looked at the Indigo Girls and Elton John as role models.
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Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.
