Chellie Pingree Quotes
Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I love so many styles of music.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I'm pagan.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.
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It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.
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This māyā, that is to say, the ego, is like a cloud. The sun cannot be seen on account of a thin patch of cloud; when that disappears one sees the sun. If by the grace of the guru one's ego vanishes, then one sees God.
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We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung out with a lot of guys in high school, and I did theater with a few of my close girlfriends.
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Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
