Great Quotes
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.
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One of the great joys of my life post-'Friends' has been being approached by Asian women who have told me how much it meant to see an Asian face on their TV screen when they were growing up.
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Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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When I'm traveling, I always look for a dance studio. It's a great workout and a wonderful way to meet new friends in the community.
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It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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My mother wasn't controlling at all. She was a stabilizing force who grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. Now it's the big circle game. Taking care of her is a great blessing for me. I'll tuck her into bed, kiss her on the cheek, wipe up the mess on her blouse from whatever she spilled.
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Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won't find anywhere else!
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Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
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For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
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The founder of Dell found ways of delivering Hewlett Packard's most profitable products for much lower prices but forgot to deliver their quality so within a few years had fallen behind again. Ideas need constant renewal. A great idea will never be perfect and will never work perfectly in all markets and all seasons.
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We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.
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There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.
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Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
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In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
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To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.
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When its time to go off to work, or work out, I have a great support system: a great nanny and friends who offer to help out whenever they can.
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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
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My specialty at 'SNL' was doing triage. There was always a great need for someone to say, 'Make this funnier. Give me an ending for this. What's a better big laugh for this towards the end? What's a better physical joke in this?' And I just really, over time, honed that specific thing so well.
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I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
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Well if you reduce religion to social work, so does USAID produce...do all that. Actually, a secular organization, actually rather more convincingly. Most of the great philanthropist of the united states have been atheists...doesn't prove that atheism is correct.
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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
