M. L. Stedman Quotes
There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
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I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!
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Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.
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I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Our life is full of empty space.
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You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.
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I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.
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I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.
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Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.
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I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.
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There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale only gods can summon.
