Nalo Hopkinson Quotes
Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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We grow small trying to be great.
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Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.
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I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
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It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on 'civil liberties and human rights' conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.
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'You’re just getting old.' She gave a dramatic sigh. 'Truly, all the more’s the tragedy; the second thing to go is a man’s memory.'
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The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.
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Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.
