L. David Mech Quotes
Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.
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We always trend set.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.
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I love the sea.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
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In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
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My general audition song is almost always 'Man That Got Away.'
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She leaned into him to soak up his warmth. "You are so hot," she said. "It's about time you noticed," he teased.
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I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
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English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.
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The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.
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Dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all. During my 13 summers observing the Ellesmere Island pack, I saw none.
