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Be You Quotes (page 562)

It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game. Freddy Adu
There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge. Casey Abrams
Julian Barnes quote: "Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry..."
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. Julian Barnes
Samuel Johnson quote: "I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing..."
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. Samuel Johnson
Craig Claiborne quote: "I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write...."
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. Craig Claiborne
Tom Hanks quote: "If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh,..."
If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay. Tom Hanks
Terry Prachett quote: "Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told..."
Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things. Terry Prachett
Listen, lady," he said in a high voice, "if I had of been there [to see Jesus raise the dead] I would of known and I wouldn't be like I am now." His voice seemed about to crack and the grandmother's head cleared for an instant. She saw the man's face twisted close to her own as if he were going to cry and she murmured, "Why you're one of my babies. You're one of my own children!" She reached out and touched him on the shoulder. The Misfit sprang back as if a snake had bitten him and shot her... Flannery O'Connor
And maybe we got lost in translation, maybe I asked for too much. But maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up. Running scared, I was there, I remember it all too well. And you call me up again just to break me like a promise. So casually cruel in the name of being honest. I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here'Cause I remember it all, all, all too well Taylor Swift
Are you, Are you, Coming to the tree, Where they strung up a man they said murdered three? Strange things did happen here, No stranger would it be, If we met up at midnight In the hanging tree. Suzanne Collins
I saw how the forms of love might be maintained with a condemned person but with the love in fact measured and disciplined, because you have to survive. It could be done so discreetly that the object of such care would not suspect, any more than she would suspect the sentence of death itself. Alice Munro
Mitch Albom quote: "If you're always battling against getting older, you're always..."
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow. Mitch Albom
To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting. E. E. Cummings
Lie quiet and you will lapse back into peace again. Be like the god Heimdall before the battle call, so still that you can hear the wool grow on the backs of sheep, and the grass grow far away in the lands where the snow melts. Anne Rice
Thinking of Macintosh's reaction to Veronica, Grant felt a wave of empathy. "Poor kid's going to be mooning like a puppy for a month. Did you have to smile at him?"Really, Grant. He can't be more than fifteen."Old enough to break out in a sweat," he commented."Hormones," she murmured as she found Fairfield's sparse selection of wine. "They just need time to balance."Grant's gaze drifted down and focused as she bent over. "It should only take thirty or forty years," he muttered. Nora Roberts

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