Earl Lovelace Quotes
Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.
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My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
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Shoes are important to me because I don't do much with my clothes.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
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I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.
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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.
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I never started collecting figures or anything like that because I'm slightly completist with things, so if I start down a path, I'm worried where it'll end up - i.e. With a wall of something!
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain.
