Mary Gordon Quotes

I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.

Mary Gordon

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• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  

  Laura Miller
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• Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

  

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• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

  

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• Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

  

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• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

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• I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

  

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• While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
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• There are no rules to writing a song.

  

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  • Song
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• Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
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• No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
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• I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.

  

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• Life is one long jubilee.

  

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• My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.

  

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• I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.

  

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• The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

  

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• I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • People
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• I have been with some great organizations, crossed paths with special people, and made numerous lasting relationships.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • People
  • Great

• I had two times in my life where I wanted to give up everything I worked for, but God gave me a job.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Life
  • Up
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• If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions.

  

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• I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Job