Deborah Harkness Quotes

I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was my spectacular mid-life crisis. Some people buy expensive cars, and I wrote a novel.

Deborah Harkness

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PeopleMeThinkPlanSometimes

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

Jesse Jackson

TimeMoreMy TimeWastingCandidates

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

Joel Osteen

FaithTodayBestYouNowRight

I think if you come straight on honest as much as you can, eventually that turns into success. Maybe not as quick as you'd like.

Jennifer Warnes

SuccessThinkYouQuickHonestCome

Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.

John Krasinski

FunnyPeopleWorldYouKnowBoston

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

Matt Gonzalez

TimeElectionTimingLittleJust

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

Matt Mullenweg

ThinkMediaLongNewNeverRadio

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

Andy Kaufman

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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Michael Caine

PresentNeverFaultWithoutAbsent

After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script.

Toni Collette

GoodMeRoadOvercomingFatWedding

My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn.

Toni Trucks

BestParentsMeLearnYouWant

Europeans have it better than the Americans. The Americans work too hard. The balance is out of whack. Europe's hung onto a little bit more of living a life and then working as well.

Jason Clarke

LifeWorkBalanceBetterLivingOut

I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.

Dick Van Dyke

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