Jennifer McMahon Quotes
Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.
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My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.
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I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust-a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.
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You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
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For me, it's a feel thing; it's a mechanical thing.
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By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.
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Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.
