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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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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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.
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I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.
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Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
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Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
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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.
