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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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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I'm not into pancake things. I'm into eggs. Lots of eggs.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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I go to an all-Hawaiian school, and we learn everything about being Hawaiian. We have a really deep respect for the water and the land. We say, 'mauka to makai,' mountains to ocean. I believe if you take care of the ocean, the ocean will take care of you in return.
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Everyone said how tormented directors can be. I've never enjoyed something so much in my life!
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I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life.
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I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I'd end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music.
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I'm not going to tell you now while everyone is listening.
