Jill McCorkle Quotes

It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.

Jill McCorkle

Recitation: by Male by Female

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In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community changed drastically. You went from all being very close together to all being spaced apart and slightly suspicious of one another.

Joe Gebbia

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'Terrible' is not a word I would use in shooting romantic scenes with Scott Speedman.

Jessy Schram

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I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.

Ann Bancroft

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It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole career thinking I'll never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.

Amanda Donohoe

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I lied a lot when I was a kid. Somehow, I still do this today, but maybe in another way - not quite as ridiculously clumsily as I used to. But still, I think making music has a lot to do with it. One invents something that one can't possibly be. With songs, one invents a world that wouldn't exist otherwise.

Sophie Hunger

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Unless you're born here, I don't know if you can ever become a full New Yorker.

Trevor Moore

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I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

Roy Orbison

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Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury's believing their word over a police officer's are slim to none.

Michelle Alexander

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When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.

Lisa Gardner

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When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks.

Joseph Mazzello

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I'm really happy to be a part of the Houston Astros organization. I just want to keep playing hard and help this team win games.

Jose Altuve

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Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Dorothy Height

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