Gene Wolfe Quotes
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.
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I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I don't think anybody is going, 'Wow, that show is executed poorly, but the idea is so cool I just have to keep watching.'
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A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
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Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.
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A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
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People who wish to be lost always get their way.
