Jeh Johnson Quotes
War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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You don't get second chances in the real world.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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I love girl power.
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Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.
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The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.
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War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.
