Mary Doria Russell Quotes
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On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.
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I can't make pronouncements about the entirety of Iranian cinema, because there's such a great number of filmmakers and because of the diversity of points of view and filmmaking attitudes.
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When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!
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Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.
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Even the poor should give something to charity.
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The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
