Gary Paulsen Quotes
My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Garry Kasparov -
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.
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I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.
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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
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The dread was built into the 2016 election - a little spoonful of dread.
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My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I became a street kid. Occasionally, I'd live with aunts or uncles, then I'd run away to live in the woods, trapping and hunting game to survive. The wilderness pulled at me; still does.
