Phyllis Smith Quotes
Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments.
Phyllis Smith
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
Garry Disher
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
Vikas Swarup
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
Octavia Spencer
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I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
Kalpana Chawla
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
Kate O'Mara
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
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If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
Katha Pollitt
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
Nate Parker
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. Abrams
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I'm not a one-issue person.
Barbara Bush
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
Viggo Mortensen
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My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.
Mark Strong
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President Xi Jinping clearly understands, and I think agrees, that the situation in North Korea has intensified and has reached a certain level of threat that action has to be taken. And, indeed, the Chinese, even themselves, have said that they do not believe the conditions are right to engage in discussions with the government in Pyongyang. And so what I think we're hopeful is that we can work together with the Chinese to change the conditions in the minds of the DPRK leadership.
Rex W. Tillerson
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I think I was born with a natural way of looking at something and trying to find the ways in which it was odd or funny, Even in the sad or angry stuff, I was, 'Well, but where is the funny part of this?'
Briga Heelan
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Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments.
Phyllis Smith
