Patrick O'Brian Quotes

When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.

Patrick O'Brian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

Jennifer Lopez

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Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S.

Rosa DeLauro

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I feel very lucky. My family and I have worked hard, and I feel very grateful.

Millie Bobby Brown

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I like to think of myself as a virtuous troll.

Milo Yiannopoulos

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Doris Day

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People don't talk about how hard it is to make a movie. Nobody does. Ever.

Doug Liman

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In many ways, the very notion of school choice operates under a false pretense - an assumption that every child has the same set of choices to make and the same places to choose from.

Clint Smith

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If you can hang in games by staying close defensively, then good things can happen.

Ara Parseghian

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Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.

Allan Sloan

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We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments. India's trade performance in the current year has been robust, surpassing pre-crisis export levels and pre-crisis export growth trends. We have diversified our export baskets and our export destinations.

Pranab Mukherjee

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Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.

Nolan Bushnell

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There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes on. It's a bit like life, in a way.

Liam Cunningham

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