Kathleen Troia McFarland Quotes
The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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Women just love to shop.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.
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I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.
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The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.
