Alan Patrick Herbert Quotes
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.
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That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.
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When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.
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It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.
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If you can't sleep with your own wife wearing a false beard, what can you do?
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
