Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes
Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.
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I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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Holy cow, in the course of one week I feel like I've lived about a year!
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That's very cool. Well, that's great. If I were to cater to Kanye, he would know that I'm catering to him. The fact that I make what I make - he gets it. He gets the quality and he respects it. And I think that's the key, why I work all the time is to do that. That's the fun.
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My heart is forever in Giverny.
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
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You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans.
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Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.
