Paula Hawkins Quotes

I grew up in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa, and I moved to London when I was 17. And I started commuting and, actually, to go to college. And I used to really enjoy that part of my journey where the - it was actually a Tube train, but it was over ground, and it went right past the backs of people's houses, and I could actually see right in.

Paula Hawkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 24, 1927 - December 4, 2009

Topics

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No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

Joe Haldeman

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Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

John Baldacci

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We opened Panda Inn on June 8, 1973. The whole family - my parents, a brother and sister - all worked at the restaurant for free. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment in San Gabriel and didn't have any money.

Andrew Cherng

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Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

Meryl Streep

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I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

Stephen Hawking

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I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know.

Trevor Paglen

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During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.

Tom Brokaw

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I was in a rap group when I was younger and quickly realized that wasn't going to work out for me, but my passion for hip hop and the culture never left; it only grew.

Rob Stone

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I'm glad I went through the 'TUF' experience.

Rose Namajunas

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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

Mireille Mathieu

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If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Luis Bunuel

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