C. Vivian Stringer Quotes
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I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
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Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.
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But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.
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Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers.
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I find listening to music in terms of influences, and trying to keep up with what's going on, is sickening! I mean, I'm not deliberately musically illiterate. But I have a pretty serendipitous approach to it.
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I'm not going to tell you now while everyone is listening.
