Jane Rule Quotes
Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
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Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.
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I've never seen any character I've ever played as a bad guy or a good guy.
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I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.
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I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
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I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.
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And to get that much talent in the show-and to keep it constant and consistent-I think is a remarkable feat.
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The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
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One of the satisfactions of fiction, or drama, or poetry from the perpetrator’s point of view is the selective order it imposes upon the confusion of a lived life; out of the daily welter of sensation and impression these few verbal artifacts, these narratives or poems, are salvaged and carefully presented.
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I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.
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Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet.
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I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.
