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 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 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 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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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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I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
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Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
