Evelyn Glennie Quotes
Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.
Quotes to Explore
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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An author's ability to bring a marketing synopsis to the table - along with a great manuscript - makes a difference in what books get picked up. This is true for both fiction and nonfiction titles. You need to show your publisher what you've got in your marketing arsenal.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
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The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.
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We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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I don't have to work; I need to work.
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Use a corrector to do all the heavy lifting under the eyes, not concealer. I spent years re-applying and layering concealer and Touche Eclat under there, when what I really needed was a good, peachy-toned corrector.
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I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
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Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
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Deadlines are great for customers because having one means they get a product, not just a promise that someday they'll get a product.
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I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.
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You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.
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Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.
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Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. Enjoy not having to look at a watch.
