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“I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!”
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“I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us.”
Source : "The Curiously Irresistible Literary Debut of Mark Haddon". PowellsBooks Interview, www.powells.com. October 10, 2006.
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“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
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“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.”
Source : Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.1, University of Chicago Press
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“Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.”
Source : Don Peppers, Martha Rogers (2016). “Managing Customer Experience and Relationships: A Strategic Framework”, p.112, John Wiley & Sons
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“A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.”
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“Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.”
Source : "Derek Luke: 'I was molested, and I have my own personal fight'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.
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“Wine is like beer except different.”