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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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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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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'This Is Not That Dawn' is remarkable in part for its careful and sensitive attention to women's lives - and also for its harsh critique of men and their failure to stop violence.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Remember what Susan B. Anthony said? 'Failure is impossible.' Failure is possible if women don't vote.
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
