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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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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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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I'd like to take a look at the process and see how it goes, ... It is not my inclination to do anything that would be divisive to the party.
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One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.
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The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
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It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.
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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.
