Ellen Gilchrist Quotes
I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.
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I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
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I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.
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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
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Birth is really judgy, and people get really opinionated. Everyone's entitled to the experience they want.
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I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer.
