Heinrich Mann Quotes
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
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When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
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When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
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I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.
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Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.
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A sincere acquiescence in the dispensations of Providence will check discompusure of mind beyond any thing. It will produce a calm in the midst of a storm.
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I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.
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You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.
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I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little.
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Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.
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I wasn't aware of my dad being an actor when I was young. I remember there was an Australian children's entertainer on television called Ralph Harris and when I'd say my father was an actor, kids would say, you know, 'oh, is he Ralph Harris?' And I had to say no and then they would lose interest.
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And my father, after all, was a nationalist.
