Mary Doria Russell Quotes
John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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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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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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It's a terrible feeling being lonely.
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Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.
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I can assure you I have never made decisions on my mother's behalf on her foundation's board.
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The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.
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It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.
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John Henry Holliday didn't have a mother to love him when he was grown, so I have taken him for my own. My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves.
