C. J. Cherryh Quotes
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
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What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.
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I don't know how people chew gum all day long.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.
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Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
