Andrew Tobias Quotes
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I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
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There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.
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You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
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Ideas are fatal to caste.
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No. I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit.
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...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
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So this is me swallowing my pride,Standing in front of youSaying I'm sorry for that night.And I go back to December all the time.Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you,Wishing that I realized what I had when you were mine.I go back to December, turn around and make it all right.I go back to December all the time.
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Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
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A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
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I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
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I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.
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A woman is as young as her knees.
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Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.
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Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this is mine. It is not the best book I ever encountered, perhaps, but it is for me the handiest, and I keep it about me in much the same way one carries a handkerchief - for relief in moments of defluxion or despair.
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My job is to show my clients that their anger is rarely someone else's fault. It's their flaw.
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'Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence,...'
