Laura Amy Schlitz Quotes
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.
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I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.
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I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.
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You see so many beautiful things happening in this world, and you see so many things that make you want to cry and crawl under a rock. But there's an underlying feeling of magic and mystery in everything that I live for. I feel like all of my art is trying to get people to see that underlying, subtle energy that lives within everything that we see and what we don't see in this world.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
