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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It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.
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We're trying to change the whole way our merch is viewed, in terms of just not a bunch of skulls interlaced; you know, every album can look the same, so they're going to be stylized and different.
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Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?
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In his home-life Turgot remained most frugal and laborious, treating his servants with a benevolence then accounted contemptible, and working out his quiet schemes with an infinite patience and thoroughness. When he was offered the richer Intendancy of Lyons, he would not take it. Here, as he said of himself, though he was 'the compulsory instrument of great evil,' he was doing a little good. Only a little, it might be. But if every man did the little he could — what a different world!
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To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much.
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Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.
