Virginia Graham Quotes
The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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Be virtuous and you will be vicious.
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It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
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I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.
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I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.
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I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
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I think being shy or a little bit more mild-mannered is more how you treat people and how you go about your business, not necessarily how you dress or things of that nature.
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I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.
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There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.
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I've been online since 1989; I was sysop on several CompuServe forums.
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I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.
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I do not subscribe to the advocacy journalism school. It's not who I am and not who CNN wants me to be.
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My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I do get the chance to write, it is like a stolen luxury, something clandestine and almost forbidden.
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I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?
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Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards. I don't violate them when I want to sound like an educated person, for the same reason I don't wear a bikini to a funeral when I want to look like a respectful person. There are social conventions for the way we do lots of things, and it is to everyone's benefit to be familiar with them. But logic ain't got nothin' to do with it.
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But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.
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Just a tip if you have a big event to go to or an important meeting, if you cry enough your face swells up giving you a temporary lift.
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The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.
