Marley Dias Quotes
Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.
Quotes to Explore
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.
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Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had written some poetry, and she was a game designer.
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The Pledge of Allegiance simply reinforces the beliefs that led to the birth of our great nation. It is an oath of our fidelity to our country, and I am disappointed that the court chose to rule against this American treasure.
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A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.
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To change your mind about something is always difficult. I think that people who are big enough to admit they were wrong can be counted on your fingers.
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Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.
