Ellen Potter Quotes
One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?
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The fans treated me royally.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.
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If you've only had one relationship, how do you know you're good in bed?
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Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.
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The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out.
