Evan Ross Quotes
I want to be remembered for the good work that I've done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
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There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.
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For me to have an opportunity to work with someone like that, it's a fantastic learning experience.
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I want to be remembered for the good work that I've done, for the positive work, and as somebody who was innovative and who people enjoyed.
