Mary Pipher Quotes
Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
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People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
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I've actually never played a time traveler, for all the time travelling movies I've done.
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
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The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
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The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
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Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart.
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Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
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Now my tapestry's unraveling.
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It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.
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No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
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Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins.
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Quite a lot of the girls I get photographed with are just friends and then, according to the papers, I have, like, 7,000 girlfriends.
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One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
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Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves.
