Mary Doria Russell Quotes
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.
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Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
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I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.
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I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.
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At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.
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That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle... you have no basis on which to build.
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It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be.
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Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.
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Let's be clear: Donald Trump is a lewd, lecherous lowlife.
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I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.
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If you come to Georgia, you can open up a company in a day. You yourself can come tomorrow and establish a company in a day, and you're not halted by paperwork.
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Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.
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To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.
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We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.
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In the U.S., philanthropic support from entrepreneurs is tightly integrated into the fabric of society, whether it's health care, medical research, or education. Now, slowly, China will know this.
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The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.
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The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.
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Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?
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The sparrow still falls.
