Mary Doria Russell Quotes
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
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It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?
