Laini Taylor Quotes
Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
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I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
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You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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I've felt ugly and insecure.
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I don't fear anything now.
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She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.
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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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My favorite outfit is baggy black corduroy pants and a baggy T-shirt.
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I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.
