Jane Rule Quotes
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.
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I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
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When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.
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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
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There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
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Now, I mentioned yesterday at the town hall - like America’s first President, George Washington, he understood that democracy can only endure when it’s bigger than just one person. So his willingness to leave power was as profound as his ability to claim power.
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And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.
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There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
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What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.
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I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.
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Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.
