Annie Proulx Quotes
He Quoyle did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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There is nothing to do but keep on.
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Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, 'Lay it not too much to heart.' Let them adopt the maxim, 'Better luck next time'; and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves.
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We will admit that, out of the mud or sand which is found on the seashore or the beds of our rivers, at low water, shellfish or testaceous animals come forth, but it does not from thence by any means follow that they are produced without any regular course of generation.
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If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.
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He Quoyle did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.
