Olympia Dukakis Quotes
I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.Olympia Dukakis
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
Nancy Kress -
I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
Zainab Salbi -
I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
Marat Safin -
I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
Taylor Negron -
These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
Major Taylor -
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
Lance Armstrong
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I would like to direct.
Aaron Eckhart -
It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
Carl Hiaasen -
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Ralph Nader -
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Saint Augustine -
Europe can be saved.
Viktor Orban -
Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
Aaron Schock
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
Larenz Tate -
I have the strange ability to shut things out.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
Cameron Mathison -
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
Patricia Highsmith -
I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
Veruschka von Lehndorff
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
Rafael Nadal -
I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.
John Edwards -
The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.
Isabel Paterson -
It's a world where anyone you're selling to probably has just as much information as you, has lots of choices, and all kinds of ways to talk back. And so, the low road is less and less of an option. You actually have to take the high road: Be more honest, more direct, more transparent.
Dan Pink -
I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.
Dick York -
I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
Olympia Dukakis