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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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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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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 believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.
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The issue of how the game is played is something that's constantly being reviewed internally with the Players' Association, with the general managers, and it's something that we continue to monitor on a daily basis.
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My friend, the moon god was Allah. He was just one of 360 idols in the Ka'aba in Mecca. And Muhammad knew all about this. The crescent moon is everywhere in Islam. Even Ramadan begins and ends with the crescent moon. Ask your mullah why!
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Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
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We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
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I think the concept of the sea is very important.
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If I work on music, it'll be for 10 hours a day, so sometimes I'll feel stressed, and I'll go for a two-hour walk. That sorts me out.
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Metaphor is embodied in language.
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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.
