People Quotes
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It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.
Cate Marvin
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People have parties because they’re sad. They think a party will make them happy.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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All that I have said up to now has merely been words.
When people come to see me, I have to say something.
But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
Better to begin practice without delay.
I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere.
Do not hesitate, just get going. You won't regret it.
Ajahn Chah
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I don't want people to know who I am.
Rik Mayall
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All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native American literature is stuck in one idea: sort of spiritual, environmentalist Indians. And I want to portray everyday lives. I think by doing that, by portraying the ordinary lives of Indians, perhaps people learn something new.
Sherman Alexie
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A great leader will never sacrifice the people for the numbers.
Simon Sinek
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My heart gives thanks for empty moments given to dreams, and for thoughtful people who help those dreams come true
William Braithwaite
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People thought we were intimidating, especially once we'd had a few drinks, but when I look back we were virtually on top of each other, holding hands. We sounded so stupid.
Keren Woodward
Bananarama
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The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they know that you're in it together, and you're working towards the same objectives, and you agree on how to do more with less, you can actually have a greater impact.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
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I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
Dolly Parton
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
Terence McKenna
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Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.
Cecelia Ahern
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Courageous people feel the same fear everyone else does, they just decide to not be afraid anymore.
Bob Goff
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It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you.
Sara Shepard
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For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
Carson McCullers
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There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.
Chang-Rae Lee
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We are called to love all people with the love of Christ, because his Father loves all people, wants to bless all people, and wants to save all people.
Brian Houston
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Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the mind as well. Use logic, use sense, use the incredible five wits you were given by creation.
Stephen Fry