Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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I will keep working hard!
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.
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Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge?
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The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.
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I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.
