Deborah Mailman Quotes
I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
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In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
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There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.
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Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.
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I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed.
