George Strait Quotes
My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!
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My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
