Jake Arrieta Quotes
I'm probably throwing down close to 10,000 calories. And then I don't eat for three or four days.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
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The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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If you don't like me, it's your problem.
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Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.
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Schools should be places of learning and joy, not testing and agita.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.
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That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
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My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.
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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.
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She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.
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Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.
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I'm probably throwing down close to 10,000 calories. And then I don't eat for three or four days.