Denise Morrison Quotes
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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Gallows, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven 
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.
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I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.
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I believe women need to take charge.
