Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Quotes
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
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It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be applied in humans for therapeutic uses.
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My wife, Sharon, and I started with nothing when we got married. I was driving a 1902 Pinto and eating off a card table.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
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I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.
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I'm always interested in the ways in which a character can inhabit either a theme or a premise personally, so that those scenes that are about his character or his relationship with other characters feel in context and don't seem to be apart from or oddly vestigial to the actual drama.
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I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.
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With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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People have a right to their opinion.
