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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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
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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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Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, is an engineer and a chip designer. He cofounded Nvidia and still runs it like a startup.
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I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
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I do not think any man would ever treat a woman as his equal, and it is all I ask because I know my worth.
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.
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Desolation Island (1979)
