Lauren Willig Quotes
Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.
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If I could have done anything more, it would have been less.
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I have a lot of health anxiety.
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Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.
