Dorothy Allison Quotes

If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.

Dorothy Allison

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
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• Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

  

  Olympia Snowe
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  • Judge
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• Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'

  

  Taran Killam
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• Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Life
  • Information
  • Fast

• Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Believe
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• I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.

  

  Sam Childers
  • People
  • Up
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• Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Work
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• Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Day
  • Technology
  • Learning

• I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Long
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  • Kind

• My awkward stage extended well into high school.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Walking
  • Creative
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• My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Live
  • Independent
  • Place

• Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Life
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• Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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  • Advice

• There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • World
  • Want
  • Change

• You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

  

  Hilary Swank
  • Life
  • Change
  • Fate

• I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

  

  Sasha Roiz
  • Characters
  • Horrible
  • Tendency

• There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Desire

• And, growing tired, we turn aside at last,Remember our secret selves, seek out our towers,Lay weary hands on the banisters, and climb;Climbing, each, to his little four-square dreamOf love or lust or beauty or death or crime.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Growing

• I do belong on stage.

  

  Chris Daughtry

• If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.

  

  Dorothy Allison
  • Book
  • Strong
  • Desire