"You can get lost, pretending to be someone you're not."

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Source : Karen Hawkins (2011). “A Most Dangerous Profession”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

Karen Hawkins

#Pretending Quotes #Lost Quotes

“Hello?" A girl again. "I know you can hear me. I'm sorry my friend is such a wing nut. You can just ignore him." "That's usually what we do," said the other feminine voice.”
“When I naturally write a story and I feel that the guy (is) sitting across the table from the girl and flirting with her... I think, 'God, that can't be me' because I'm just too old for that part. You need a 30-year-old or a 35-year-old for that part. And so I've given myself less and less roles.”
“I can't remember the exact quote but when I used to trade and Mr. Volcker was Fed chairman, he said something like 'gold is my enemy, I'm always watching what gold is doing', we need to think why he made a statement like that. If you're a central banker or one of the congressmen or senators, watch what gold is doing because this is a no-confidence vote in fiscal and dollar policy.”
“How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.”
“... he was juggling issues and solving problems, which was why his brain had no space left for memories.”
“A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.”
“I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.”
“Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?”

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