Pretty Quotes
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Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
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We live in a world where equality is pretty important.
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My parents were pretty cool about letting me listen to whatever I wanted. The only objection might have been playing music too loud.
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Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.
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I'm pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while.
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Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
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My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.
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I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, really.
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It's hard for us to imagine, as humans, that we'll become less powerful. But it'll be healthier for the planet and for the eco-system if that does happen. If humans are going to merge with machines, then let's get on with it. I love humans, but I also love dinosaurs - I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have wanted them to die out, either.
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One of the things that's pretty unique about nu shu, when you look especially at these old letters and stories that have been saved, is that there are certain lines that are very standard that are used again and again. It's almost like a formula in a sense, so that these certain lines come up again and again.
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Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
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'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.
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My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.
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On my first flight, I don't know if maybe it's a function of time, or if I was less stressed on my second flight, but just being able to tell what part of the planet we were flying over by the reflected light coming through the window - that was pretty special.
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I think I can speak for a lot of people in that they would be pretty nervous about meeting Harrison Ford, and I was definitely one of those people.
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Babies should be classified as an antidepressant. It's pretty hard to be in a bad mood around a 5-month-old baby.
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I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.
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It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.
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But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.
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But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
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We lived in a ghetto. I could have pretended I was hard or tough and not a square. I wound up not getting in trouble. I don't consider myself to be especially wise, but I will say that it's pretty clear that some people want to get out and some people don't. I wanted out.
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Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others' opinions affect you is pretty amazing.
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My mother's a pretty warm, open person.
