Bobbie Ann Mason Quotes
I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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Talk about your problems. There's no need to feel shy. It's always good to talk about issues that concern you.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
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I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
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There's no question that looking down to search the Web, send a text message, or log onto Facebook puts you in danger and puts people around you on the road in danger.
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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
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Gay marriage passed in New York because four Republican legislators crossed party lines. They did it in part because they had true bipartisan financial support.
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The individual under this kind of life, with no rights, has absolutely no power in this land. How can they even ask you for creativity? Or imagination, or courage or passion?
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I didn't want to get into a political debate with him, but my patience was running thin...My shorts were getting a little tight.
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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
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Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.
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The FSB's invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life - sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone in a back room clearly turning the volume of minor persecution up and down.
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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
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I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
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I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.
