Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes
Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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We have over 30 dams in Puerto Rico, and I think only one works. We're here in the rain forest, and we have plenty of water. It's insane.
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In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.
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Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
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The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant.
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I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.
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Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.
