Mary Doria Russell Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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In the new version of the law of supply and demand, jobs are so cheap - as measured by the pay - that a worker is encouraged to take on as many of them as she possibly can.
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Course Dumbledore trusts you,” growled Moody. “He’s a trusting man, isn’t he? Believes in second chances. But me — I say there are spots that don’t come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d’you know what I mean?
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... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.
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Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.
