Lane Kirkland Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
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People always think that when they grew up it was better. The people who went to Studio 54 say, "Oh, this is nothing!" or "The Limelight is nothing. In our day it was much better." But I mean, it's always great. It's always fresh to the kids. And to me, you've just got to make it happen. You can't be a downer and say, "This is nothing like the roaring 20s."
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The only way to convert the heathen is to travel into the jungle.
