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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A thief believes everybody steals.
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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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I'm essentially a humorist and, I think, a pretty good one. I've known all along that 'My Friend Dahmer' is the one book I'll be most known for, and in a way, that's a drag, as it's nothing like the rest of the work I've done or will do moving forward. But the way I figure, it's better to have a best-known work than not to have one at all.
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During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.
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'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
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Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to direct the play around that character. You have to make choices with that actor. If you have an actor that really doesn't get the role and has certain visions of the role, sometimes you have to direct around that actor.
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I feel like I'm always talking about myself, and I love not talking about myself.
