- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never Give Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
No child is un-teachable. I will never give up on any kid. Every child can learn.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle it, no matter how hard I work to keep everything readable. But again it's that balance I have to maintain between keeping it easy and keeping it real, and I know that I'll never please everyone.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
- Dorm
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her college dorm room, pursued by a man, either real or imagined, who finally materializes as the father she has never known.
- Grow Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.
- Failed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never failed at anything in fiction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate when people say, 'Oh, they laughed all the way to the bank.' That's nonsense because the most cynical, unhappy people are Hollywood screenwriters. They earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for work that's never made.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've trained in dance for most of my life, but ballet was the thing I left behind the earliest because they felt like I didn't have the right body for it, and I didn't like that and never felt like I could be a part of that dance structure.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will never finish everything on our to-do lists. It's not possible, and that is life!
- Nov 07, 2020
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020