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It's stressful, but I thought I had it together.


Karen Douglas

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I. D. DOUGLAS It was very stressful. I lost my home.
ED WIDDIFIELD I had reports from farmers that they had seen baby snakes and their mothers out together and I thoug...
GRAHAM ALEXANDER I had packed all my stuff. I had about eight bags in the airport. I put my house up for sale. For so...
STEVEN HUNTER I don't think I could take Obey in Douglas, Ashland and Bayfield counties. But I believe I can narro...
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WILL & GRACE But I can please God
CRAIG GROESCHEL I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.
LALLA WARD I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
KATE THOMPSON I thought we had the game secure, but we got a little relaxed and our defensive intensity wasn't at ...
TRENT STRICKLAND But Frank and I had never played together.
JOE AGNELLO I thought it was hilarious. We've watched games together ever since.
CHRIS NICHOLS I thought I had thought about it, but I didn't realize what it really meant until I saw a double pag...
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MARGARET STAFFORD I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro h...
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JACOB KNIGHT As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.
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CHAD OVERHOLSER It was really hard. I would stay up until 2 a.m. It was really stressful.
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JOEY DOWNS I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
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GUADALUPE VALDEZ JR I thought after Bertha and Fran, our luck had run out. But we dodged it.
CECIL LOGAN I had been asked several times before but just never really gave it serious thought.
JACKIE WILLIAMS My life is stressful, but I know who is in control. Without a strong faith in God, I couldn't make i...
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TRENT STRICKLAND I thought i had friends but in the end niggaz dies lonely.
TUPAC SHAKUR I wanted very much to do Traffic and at one point it looked like I was going to work on it. And then...
KEVIN COSTNER I wish I had put a bet on, but thought it might have been disrespectful to the Holy Spirit.
ANN WIDDECOMBE Found something?”
“No, sorry. I thought I had, but, no, it turned out to be, uh… more flo...
DEREK LANDY I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.
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GREG NOSSAMAN I told my team that I didn't know what to do. We thought about it a lot and tried to come up with th...
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EDWARD JOHNSON I thought it was like a gift from God. I hate that we had the disaster, but it gave us some joy.
HARRY BROWN It was frustrating because I thought I had some momentum,
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SIMON KHAN It's an ordeal, and I know it's very stressful.
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JASON BECK I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
CARLY PATTERSON It was quite a radical experiment. Everybody thought Lincoln Center had lost its mind.
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TORI AMOS This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this b...
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MARGARET ATWOOD I thought we had it. We closed the gap and I thought things would turn our way.
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CHAD SPENCE I thought it had gotten better, but in the last few weeks there have been more incidents,
JOSEPH WOOD Once -- many, many years ago -- I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I h...
JOHN FOSTER DULLES Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had...
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FIDEL VASQUEZ I thought we put together the most complete game we've had all year. Our first half was super strong...
MATT COLVIN I thought they played incredible basketball, given the fact that they had not had the opportunity to...
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CARRIE GIROUARD It became so stressful because a lot of the workers couldn't understand what I was saying,
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ROBERT GHERSON I told them we could live with 12 turnovers, but 18 is too many. Good players make plays in the four...
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TANA FRENCH I never thought I'd make it. I had given up on it. I really appreciate it.
LEE MAY I thought I had made it. I never imagined I would be here marching.
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KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
KAREN BENDER I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
KAREN BASS My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
KAREN BASS You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia...
KAREN BASS When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
KAREN BASS It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
KAREN BASS All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of ...
KAREN ARMSTRONG I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I...
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