Marion Bailey Quotes
In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I've been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
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In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
