James Lee Burke Quotes

Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.

James Lee Burke

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Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.

Joe Scarborough

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I feel our brides are empowered women who know what they want and have a strong sense of their identity. Obviously, they love fashion and glamour.

Jenny Packham

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Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.

Andrew Zuckerman

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To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

Andre Carson

PowerPeopleOthersSome PeopleSome

No aspect of our biology is left unscathed by sleep deprivation. It sinks down into every possible nook and cranny. And yet no one is doing anything about it.

Matthew Walker

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You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

Ron Reagan

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After 1994, the public had the impression we Republicans overpromised and underdelivered.

Mitch McConnell

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Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.

Luke Perry

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Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the '50s. Not everybody, but in my milieu. My crowd. You went to college, and you got a degree in case, God forbid, you ever had to work. And you better find somebody to marry while you're there, because otherwise, what's going to become of you?

Judy Blume

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What I've found is that humans do laugh at the same things everywhere.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye.

Diane Lane

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