Annie Proulx Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The greatest thing you can give a child is confidence.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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I waited all those years for a title shot, and when I finally got it, I had to pay $20,000 for the opportunity. My purse was only $18,000. So to make money, I had to bet $10,000 on myself at 8-5. That was how it was in those days.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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I'm a pretty hands-off director. I let people try things, and if it gets over-jokey, then I'll try and rein it in a little bit.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help.
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Quoyle, who spoke little himself, inspired talkers. His only skill in the game of life
