Janette Turner Hospital Quotes
There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
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I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.
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I mean, if we try to 'fluff up' 'Nikita?' We're done. If we try to 'fluff' 'Nikita,' I don't want to be involved and I don't want to watch the show.
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I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.
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I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.
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You don't want to get too wrapped up in that final destination. You want to enjoy the journey, enjoy the process, and just take it one step at a time.
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I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
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Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
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«We do what we can do means what exactly means, that we do what we can do.»
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Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.
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Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! one cannot escape from the facts.
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When you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
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La vieillerie poétique avait une bonne part dans mon alchimie du verbe.
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In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.
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If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
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I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.
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When I was around 12 or so, I saw 'The Shining.' I just remember that being a turning point for me, where I started to think about the fact that there was a hand behind the film. That it wasn't just this magical story being told - there were actual people crafting these films, and they were works of art.
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Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
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There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.
