Jean M. Auel Quotes
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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I love Chicago.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.
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Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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I've taken great pride in not being fragile.
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We're having such a great time on 'Nashville' that building on the relationship seemed an obvious next step. Lionsgate is the perfect home for the kind of scripted television I want to produce and direct.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.
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Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.
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If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a routine part of my responsibility as a citizen - like paying taxes, only less soul crushing.
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Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.
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Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce a TV show every week. He showed me what was possible.
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Don't get in arguments with your coaches. If you have a certain opinion, express it to the best of your ability. But don't get on his bad side.
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Who is seducing whom? If we are working to the same ends, there is no need for so many cross-purposes.
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Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
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People are much more interesting than people realise.
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Yogi Bear was a real moment in my life. Post-Yogi Bear: don't drink as much. Pre-Yogi Bear: like to drink much.
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When I was in law school at Harvard, the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the U.S. was a big thing. I remember the fight between the army recruiters and Harvard University due to 'Don't ask, don't tell.'
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I really fell in love with Africa.
