Martine McCutcheon Quotes
If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.
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My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
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Laughter drives shouting away.
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Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
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It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.
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There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.
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I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.
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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
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I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.
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Many of the architectural features found in it were first tried out in other buildings, such as the tombs of the emperors Humayun and Akbar.
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And in the meantime, Michelle has had a chance to greet the incoming First Lady. And we had an excellent conversation with her as well. And we want to make sure that they feel welcome as they prepare to make this transition.
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Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity? Why would you refuse to give this love to anyone? Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim in the huge, fluid freedom.
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Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good' reviews because they misunderstand the project of the book. It can be strangely galvanising to get a 'bad' one.
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What magic was this, brewed from equal parts of age-old memories and total oblivion. One could have believed that the last war these people had fought had left only happy memories, had carried in its wake nothing but joy and prosperity. Women and girls were smiling as if their sons and lovers were invulnerable.
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If Ambassador Grenell is unwilling to refrain from political statements, he should be recalled immediately.
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.
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If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.
