Ellen Potter Quotes

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

Ellen Potter

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Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Jennifer Hudson

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I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.

Maynard Webb

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My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

Maureen O'Hara

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I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it's tennis without a net.

Steven Pinker

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Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

Michael Porter

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I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

Denis Leary

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To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Donna Tartt

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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

Dorothy Day

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I don't care if you're my brother - if we go play football, I'm gonna try to crack your head open. It doesn't mean that I don't love you. It doesn't mean that I don't respect you.

Daymond John

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I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

Bryan Adams

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Being 21, 22 years old... traveling the world and getting to play golf is pretty neat.

Brooks Koepka

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When I was doing my research for 'Branded,' I'd meet groups of teenagers and preteenagers or tweens, and they would laugh at a magazine spread in a women's magazine or teen girl magazine and say, 'I'd never buy this outfit. I know these girls are starving themselves.' But they probably would go out and buy the thing eventually.

Alissa Quart

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