Dorothy Gilman Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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The world has to have zero tolerance for naked dictatorship.
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It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office.
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I'm not just considered a former child star. I'm not considered a black actress. I'm not considered an actress. I've done roles that were written for men. First and foremost is God: I definitely believe in Him having kind of mapped out what my destiny was going to be.
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If we have a food supply that we can't trust, that has enormous implications for the way we view government, for the way we trust business, and for our international trade relations.
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Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.
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People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
