Louise Penny Quotes

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

Louise Penny

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Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

Jim Crace

WillForeverBeenTellingStories

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

Jennifer Lynch

WorkPeopleMeBadPersonMean

I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.

Robert Mundell

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For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.

Ann Cotton

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Just because somebody says you are not trustworthy, that doesn't mean it is so... CNN's brand equity is built over 37 years doing hard work in very dangerous places... those who rely on CNN trust CNN more than ever.

Jeff Zucker

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I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

Trish Stratus

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The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.

Mary MacLane

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I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they'll act differently. Are they the same person? Sure, but do they act different? Yeah.

Mike Colter

CitySmallSomeoneYouSmall Town

I've been going to the movies since I was 6 or 7 years old.

Michael Rooker

MoviesOldYearsGoingBeenSince

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

Claire McCaskill

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I had an old, red-covered '63 AC30 - one of the best AC30s I've ever heard. I cut the whole of the first record with it.

Brad Paisley

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Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

Bradley Whitford

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