Joanna Russ Quotes
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you've got people just streaming up the mountain - well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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You have to follow that next step.
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Norman saw on English oak.On English neck a Norman yoke;Norman spoon to English dish,And England ruled as Normans wish;Blithe world in England never will be more,Till England's rid of all the four.
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As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.
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No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.
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The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
