Luke Grimes Quotes
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious and largely successful modernization effort.
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An entire mythology is stored within our language.
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The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
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I thought I got (Li) at the line anyway.
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He knew exactly what he had in mind for your future when he formed you.
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I don't really invest too much in the future.
