Dahlia Lithwick Quotes
The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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I can’t accept 'our nervous age,' since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.
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Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
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I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.
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The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.
