Vicki Lawrence Quotes
My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
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I was so lost back then,But with a little help from my friendsI found a light in the tunnel at the end.Now you're calling me up on the phone,So you can have a little whine and a moan.And it's only because you're feeling alone.
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I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
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It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into the wall of our dream / till some other door opens. / But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, / is spent in one beat / of the darkness, / and falls at our feet, cast off / as the day stirs and sails away with us.
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My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.
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My parents raised me to believe that when one door slams in your face, turn around because there's probably another door opening up somewhere.
