Maureen O'Hara Quotes
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
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In the beginning it was all black and white.
