Blanka Vlasic Quotes
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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In 1970, television ate my family. The Andy Warhol prophecy of 15 minutes of fame for any and everyone blew up on our doorstep.
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I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
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We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
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It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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While man is growing, life is in decrease;And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
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What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.
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I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.
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The Olympics must be my curse or something.
