Gallant Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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I couldn't pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger, so I called him Balloon Belly.
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People use restaurants to do business, to do politics, to socialize.
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The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.
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Mine is the horny hand of toil.
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On Valentine's day, I'm doing a show with an orchestra. We're doing a show with all standards for the Children's Hospital in Charleston.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
