"I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once."

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Jane Smiley

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Two Quotes

“I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche. For us, it wasn't about that. For six episodes, it's hard to invest in people, and I think when you kill a main character on television it really needs to mean something. So we certainly had talked about that, and I think we managed to juggle the ball to make a gripping, interesting and compelling finale. We feel that we didn't have to go there at this point because we had such few episodes.”
“Pain is that last quarter of a mile. You feel it, but when youâ€™re through racing, your whole body just feels elated. So the pain is worth it.”
“If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.”
“I never lost any of my titles. I moved up in weight a few times. At the end of my career, the guys that beat me didn't beat the Jeff Fenech that I know.”

Source : Source: fitefansho.blogspot.com
“Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.”
“Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.”
“Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.”

Source : "NASAWatch.com Interview with NASA Astronauts Fincke and Chiao aboard the International Space Station". Interview with Keith Cowing, www.spaceref.com. October 19, 2004.
“No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.”

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