Michael Robotham Quotes

A perfect hero is about as boring as a perfect marriage.

Michael Robotham

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Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.

Jesse Kellerman

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Sometimes I - with comedy, it's like someone liking you in high school. They either do, or they don't. And when they don't, they don't. And that's it. There are no appeals. You show up, and you're like, 'Hi! I'm -' and you stumble, and they're like, 'It's over.'

John Mulaney

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In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

Matt Taibbi

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Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

Anna Maria Chavez

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My dad owned Cadillacs all my life.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it.

Sue Johanson

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When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.

Steve Vai

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As a matter of a fact, though, I've never actually played a video game where I've played as myself.

Ronnie Lott

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I often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it.

Michael Robotham

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I work every day, and every year I spend seven months away from my family. I miss my kids' birthdays, and those are times I will never be able to go back on and share with them. That kills me.

Mo Farah

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When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'

Drew Barrymore

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We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I was mostly in Connecticut; I spent a lot of time in Tennessee in the summers, but I was in Stamford, Connecticut.

Christopher Abbott

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