Mary Doria Russell Quotes
One minute, she was in the State of Puerto Rico and the next minute, she was in the State of Persistent Vegetables.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.
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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
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The main importance of Francis Bacon’s influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.
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If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
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One minute, she was in the State of Puerto Rico and the next minute, she was in the State of Persistent Vegetables.
