Judith Tarr Quotes
A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.
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So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
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For me especially, I travel a lot, and with the weather change and everything, my skin gets dehydrated very fast.
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I am trying to persuade my family to spend more time in China. It's no fun to be in exile. I can't even figure out the basic 26 letters, let alone operate, in English. I often feel that although I've found the sky of freedom above my head, I've lost the soil I stand on. I need to be back in my motherland, where I can find inspirations.
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I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans.
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History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.
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I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.
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I would say my dream collaboration would probably have to be with Drake. I think he is an amazing artist.
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I've always wanted to be a writer. Always been very creative. I always laughed at things that the rest of my family would sort of get angry, like not understand.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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Bottom line, I have nothing but respect for Peyton Manning... He was always a great teammate to me; he's still a great friend to this day.
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A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
