Dorothy Day Quotes
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.
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We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
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I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.
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Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.
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They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.
