Edward St Aubyn Quotes
Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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There is always pressure in football.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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There is a clear link between illegal migrants coming to Europe and the spread of terrorism.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
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I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
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I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?
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You remember where you were doing each scene. 'Oh my God, it was so hot that day.' It's kind of cool to see a movie that you haven't seen in a long time and reflect on that stuff.
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Every time you step onto the field, you have to set goals. My goals are to either score a goal, to have an assist, or to play well.
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My whole childhood, that made my skin curl. I was looking for something authentic. I think that drove me into the arts, I really do. That really did it. The only other thing that made me survive, as a human being, was getting into the arts. I was surrounded by people that were very bright and they invited you in. They were gracious. So, it gave me a great education.
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Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.
