Karen Thompson Walker Quotes

As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

Karen Thompson Walker

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Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs.

Joanna Lumley

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Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

John Pomfret

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I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.

Amber Heard

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When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

Stephen Carter

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I love great quotes.

Robin S. Sharma

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Imagine being a running back or a receiver. You get tackled, and then when you get up, you're surrounded by a bunch of guys, and they're all screaming and yelling at you... Mentally, it wears on you, like, 'God, how long can I do this?' It's a mental thing.

Mike Daniels

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Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

David Suzuki

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I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

Britney Spears

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There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

Ariel Dorfman

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I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.

Ashley Jensen

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When I was working at Gilt, a lot of people at the time - this is back in 2009; Gilt launched in 2007 - were making their first fashion purchases online and at a discount.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

Alfred de Vigny

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