Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes
We may never find a way to live in suburbia with deer as we do with raccoons, say, or squirrels. So for this reason, it's very important that we make sure always to save enough wild or open land so that they can live in their normal manner.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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I've been a friend to people who may not have had perfect pasts.
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There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
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I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.
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We may never find a way to live in suburbia with deer as we do with raccoons, say, or squirrels. So for this reason, it's very important that we make sure always to save enough wild or open land so that they can live in their normal manner.
