Patrick O'Brian Quotes
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I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.
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I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.
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I once said to a boy, 'You're a really good kisser,' and he said, 'You're only as good as the person you're kissing.' I think it's the same with the music.
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You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Sound loves to revel in a summer night.
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The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.
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Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.
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Desolation Island (1979)
