Kelly Marie Tran Quotes
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I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.
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I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
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I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
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Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.
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The beauty of man's being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
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The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.
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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
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The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.
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You've got the temperament of a scholar, and you live on your own and write books. You don't have anything to do with civilization. You've been in London a few days and you can't wait to get back home. But how about the people who can't write books - people there's no outlet for in this civilization? What about your new men who don't know what to do?
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Knowledge without Mileage is bullshit to me.
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Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.
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I have always dreamt of going to an Olympics and watching these incredible athletes and being motivated and inspired to want to be successful in my own sport.
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I feel like I'm always talking about myself, and I love not talking about myself.
