Pat Conroy Quotes
I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dared to locate a sanctioned, forbidden space between white vulnerability and black invincibility.
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I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
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And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.
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So if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making life richer, making you more and more capable of mobilizing yourself. And our potential is based upon a very peculiar attitude: to live and review every fresh second.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
