Nell Freudenberger Quotes
Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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I've been to Israel many times - I've lost count of how many times.
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Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judged. There are days where you can do it and days where it's just not happening, and I feel like that's how it is with all artists; you have some days it kind of works.
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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
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Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
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It was funny that rank-and-file evangelicals were ahead of all the leadership. They saw for decades conservative Republicans had made promises to them on issues that were important to Christians and conservatives when they were running for office. But when they won, they didn't keep those promises.
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I get this thing where people are like, 'Man, you got to tell me what to do' - like I have a cheat code to being successful. It's hard work; it's trial and error. I failed, but I never let failure get to my head or to my heart.
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Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
