Pat Conroy Quotes
There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I love working the legislative process.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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Mark Twain cannot be defined.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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I don't envy young actors.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
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The money between the first pick and the 10th pick - that's a big difference! That's like a $10-million-dollar difference.
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You have to strike while the iron is hot. You have to take downtime to see friends and family, but my passion is acting: pursuing those scary, challenging characters and working with passionate people.
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I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a lot of people. But there are certainly the times where it's appealing to me, but it never quite works the way I hoped it would.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
