Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes

To stay sane, I lived in my head, where I could travel and imagine. In my mind, I played a championship game with the Knicks. I won Wimbledon five times. If the Yankees needed a home run, I came to bat.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

Joe Klein

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I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

Joe Wright

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What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.

Jennifer Egan

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We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride.

Sonya Walger

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Much as I like and admire Richard Dawkins, I do think that to call a book 'The God Delusion' is very worrying because the title implies that if you don't believe in what I believe then you are 'deluded.' That, I think, is a dangerous concept and one that is unlikely to win hearts and minds.

Robert Winston

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I like classics but I always add a twist because I don't like to think of my clothes as classic.

Monique Lhuillier

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You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

Mindy Cohn

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Do you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real - it happened when he was in Hell.

Joyce Meyer

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I've always thought Prince Charming in 'Cinderella' was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.

Jude Law

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After my final semester at Yale in December of 2013, I made a scary choice. Instead of looking for work - feeling over-read and underweight - that for a few months I would go wherever the wind carried me. I would become a student of the world, and I would eat.

Clemantine Wamariya

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Surfing is something I just crave.

AnnaSophia Robb

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Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.

Toby Stephens

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