Francine Prose Quotes
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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I love my country so much.
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Broadening and deepening the relationship with our users and advertisers have always been our strategic priority.
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Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.
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My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can't wait for it to be more than 50%.
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I am a woman, and as such, I experience the ever-increasing restrictions on our liberty in our country through the development of Islamic fundamentalism.
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I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.
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What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
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... my anxiety is not that this community's autonomy would be usurped by Peking, but that it could be given away bit by bit by some people in Hong Kong.
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People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.
