Patrick O'Brian Quotes
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.
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It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.
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I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
