Nell Newman Quotes
I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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I like part-time jobs in restaurants.
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I know politics; I know the media.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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I've always liked sparkling wine. Rose, too.
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In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
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Just because you miss someone doesn't mean you need them back in your life. Missing is just a part of moving on.
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I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
