Alafair Burke Quotes
Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's always going to be one of my favorite cities, but it was getting to the point where, after I'd moved to New York, I couldn't write as specifically about Portland any more.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
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A wonderful book . . . Full of sadness, hope, and ultimately love. I found it very moving.
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Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's always going to be one of my favorite cities, but it was getting to the point where, after I'd moved to New York, I couldn't write as specifically about Portland any more.
