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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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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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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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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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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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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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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Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.
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Let your kids pick their punishments. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around. It's easier, and we're usually right! But it rarely works.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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To be the organization that we want to be, we have to have a place to play.
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, 'This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!'
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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.
