Erskine Bowles Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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My whole thing is loyalty. Loyalty over royalty; word is bond.
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I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
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I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.
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The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
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In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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I love to wear dresses when I'm pregnant.
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I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
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"Star Trek" expands almost instinctively - the more information you seek from it, the more it gives. It also has the benefit of taking place in our future, our mutual destinies as occupants of a peaceful, non-polluted Earth.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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This race will be about the future of our state.
