Chirlane McCray Quotes
It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities, vanishes therefore, so soon as we come to other forms of production.
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I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
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Make love when you can. It's good for you.
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It took a long time for me to get into 'I'm taking care of kids,' and what that means.
