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Patrick O'Brian Quotes

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Patrick O'Brian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: December 12, 1914 - January 2, 2000

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Myself Hand Never Write Audience

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Music Words Colors Try Shape Notes

I wasn't always confident; it took me awhile to kind of assume my role in fashion and feel attractive and be able to walk into a room.

Walk Me Fashion Confident Feel Kind

I'm usually woken by a vibration on my up-band. It's the gradual vibration for about ten seconds, and then the chimes of my blue light. It's just a way to wake gently. It all gently puts me into awake-mode. I play music off of my Sonos playlist. 'The Rachmaninoff Concerto 3 in D-minor', 1st movement.

Music Light Blue Me Play Way

I have always said that, more than 'big bang' reforms, it is every day what is happening, changing on the ground.

Day Every Day Said More Always Big

The U.S. healthcare industry is undergoing radical transformation with the Affordable Care Act. Evolving thought and business models have little semblance to present mechanisms.

Business Transformation Thought Care

I'm a big fan of Kid Cudi. He was, like, the only concert I think I went to as a kid. He was on tour with Asher Roth.

Think Kid Concert Big Big Fan Tour

It's definitely a high when you walk onstage and everybody starts applauding before you even say anything.

Walk You Say High Anything Even

Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'

Politics People Road Problem Look

All that work you put in, it's so worth it to win a medal.

Work Win Worth You Worth It Medal

I was used to playing misled youth, rough-and-tumble guys. It was nice to get back to a big-hearted, warm and gentle soul, a guy who is destined for something a lot larger than he ever expected.

Milo Ventimiglia

Soul Youth Warm Back Nice Gentle

That's the one part where being brothers makes a difference. It's just instinct. That's the charm of what the Everly Brothers are: two guys singing as one.

Singing Difference Two Charm Where

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life Positive Freedom Pain Element

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