Rachel Holmes Quotes
The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
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The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
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For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.
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The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.
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I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!'
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The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.
