Sharon Kay Penman Quotes
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
Quotes to Explore
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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I think when I first started out making music here in Los Angeles, a lot of people were really curious about my ethnicity, and you know, whatever questions they had, I'd be more than happy to answer them.
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Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
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The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.
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This volume was written for children. Miss Landon set out its purpose in the preface.
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When we say 'War is over if you want it,' we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace.
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They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb
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We were taping the episodes of the show. I guess they had decided they could now fit my face onto a TV screen, and they wouldn't have to letterbox it.
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I believe in sleeping.
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The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.
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The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
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The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House agenda of her own, and an approval rating higher than the president's.
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We've had a couple momentum shifts throughout the course of the year, and this is what we've been talking about as a group - we want to build the momentum, because now is the time to do it. We've shown signs of this - the Houston game at the end of the road trip.
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My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
