S. E. Hinton Quotes
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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I always try to write the best I can.
