Ara Parseghian Quotes
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.
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I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
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Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.
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I'm a big believer that we get the politicians we deserve.
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We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.
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I have often been asked how I came to write. The best answer is that I needed the money. When I started I was 35 and had failed in every enterprise I had ever attempted.
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It's been a long road and I'm still going strong.
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Romantic films are in, which means we are out of jobs!
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In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
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What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.
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As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.
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Where there are two bugs, there is likely to be a third.
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When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple of acting jobs. There were definitely some girls that were either jealous or thought I was a snob. I was just trying to be a teenage girl and go to high school and have fun like everybody else!
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There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.
