Sabina Murray Quotes
Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.
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Cain is completely dissatisfied with the security granted to him by God, and so he searches out his own security. ... He will satisfy his desire for eternity by producing children, and he will satisfy his desire for security by creating a place belonging to him, a city.
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Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.
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The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.
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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
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Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.
