Candice Olson Quotes
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.
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With worms you can just change genes at random and see if you can find a mutant that does what you want it to do.
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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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He made one laugh sometimes by speaking the truth, but this is a form of humour which gains its force only by its unusualness; it would cease to amuse if it were commonly practised.
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The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.
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The parenting style that is good for grit is also the parenting style good for most other things: Be really, really demanding, and be very, very supportive.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.