Mabel Seeley Quotes
There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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It's always been my dream to be an attorney, and I'm that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom.
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When we're on set, we kind of joke around, and when we're rehearsing, we change up the scenes and make each other laugh. We lighten up the mood. The blooper reel is going to be amazing on 'New Moon.'
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.
