Doreen Cronin Quotes
The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
Quotes to Explore
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A novel is not a rant.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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Men always like what the ladies like.
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I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
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The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
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I do believe in women. I really do.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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After putting the kids to bed, I would think about what I wanted to write.
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Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.
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The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
