Jacqueline MacInnes Wood Quotes
Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you're working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I have selective hearing.
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
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It is so hard to get movies made in Hollywood that you got to have six going at once, and you know, probably none of those get made.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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Ch. 7 at resologist.net
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Don't be afraid to be awesome. Sometimes being weird and different is good. When you think you're working hard, there is always someone else working harder, so always be yourself and know your stuff.
