Jennifer Haigh Quotes
Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I've always been very much attracted to a character that's actually free.
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Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.
