Stephen R. Donaldson (Stephen Reeder Donaldson) Quotes
It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I mean there are many people who have endorsed me that I agree with on some things and not others.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society.
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one.
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On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.
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I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
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After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.
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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
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My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.
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I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
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Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. Note here for the record that he is not someone with a special fixation on young girls. Until now, all the women in his life have been more or less his own age. Pilar therefore does not represent an embodiment of some ideal female type for him--she is merely herself, a small piece of luck he stumbled across one afternoon in a public park, an exception to every rule.
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It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.
