Mary Gordon Quotes
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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I was like, 'I have to start writing for myself, to show people what I can do and what my point of view is.'
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If I do cardio I'll disappear.
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So, I just kind of played the way I played and then eventually we kind of figured out what worked best for the band. So, I definitely changed my stuff up and I think we're playing really tight now.
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I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.
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It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
