Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
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Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'
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In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.
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I love this idea of trying to create that intellectual eroticism. That was what I was working toward all along.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
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For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.
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I like art with a visible string to the world.
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I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.
