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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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
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I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
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In my art work, hand painting would take much too long and anyway that's not the age we're living in.
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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.
