Farley Mowat Quotes
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.
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I enjoy Saturday night racing.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
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But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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You never know when the devil might come calling.
