Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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If you are a black person growing up in America, chances are pretty good that you have experienced the police pulling you over in front of your mother's house because you 'had a headlight out.'
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You can do ANYTHING you want to do-This is your World.
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The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad.
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I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and I'm like 'Oh what's going on here? Is this a really big ring?'"
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You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.
