Sara Coleridge Quotes
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
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I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.
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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.
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I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.
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If I was Judge Del Rosario, I would say Ili, of all people, you know better.
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Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
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I was born in the U.S. This is my country.
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
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There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.
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I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.
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For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.
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The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.
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It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
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The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
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January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours.
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Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.
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I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.
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Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers.
