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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Every film is like a baby for me; it's like my own child. I feel protective and aggressive each time my film hit theatres.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.
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So we can see we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
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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.
