Judith Tarr Quotes
The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
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The importance of creativity in our country is greatly misunderstood.
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Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.
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There is no religion higher than truth.
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In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.
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Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.
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If you have a chance to win the game, you're going to try to go for the game.
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I was really surprised by the lack of awareness, by the apathy two years ago, ... The absence of that today is not surprising.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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A word is worth a thousand images.
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Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object.
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
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If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.
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The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.
