Mary Doria Russell Quotes

See that's where it falls apart for me!" Anne cried. "What sticks in my throat is that God gets the credit but never the blame. I just can't swallow that kind of theological candy. Either God's in charge or he's not...

Mary Doria Russell

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• Blame
• Candy
• Charge
• Cried
• Falls

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• If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Done
  • Because
  • Cookie

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Truth
  • Trust
  • Promise

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Life
  • Important
  • Heart

• In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Small
  • Always
  • Enjoy

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Day

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Age
  • Know
  • Conscious

• A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Time
  • Work
  • Situation

• The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Communication

• I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Life
  • Small
  • Curiosity

• I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Mean
  • Feel

• I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Real
  • Human
  • Afraid

• With each new day, I'm learning how to take control in order to have balance in my life. I plan time for myself and my loved ones and take it.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Life
  • Time
  • Control

• Dating, as we justly may, a new era in the history of man from the Fourth of July, 1776, it would be well, that is, it would be useful, if on each anniversary we examined the progress made by our species in just knowledge and just practice.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • History
  • Knowledge

• Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Organization

• If Gen. Omar el Bashir's government gives me permission to pursue Kony beyond the red line, it will only take me 30 minutes to finish him and his fighters.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Red

• My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm concerned. It has to do with our past, with our sensitivity, perhaps even our hypersensitivity in this regard.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Important
  • Political
  • Past

• See that's where it falls apart for me!" Anne cried. "What sticks in my throat is that God gets the credit but never the blame. I just can't swallow that kind of theological candy. Either God's in charge or he's not...

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • God
  • Blame
  • Candy