Gabrielle Burton Quotes
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I am healthy and happy.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.
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I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.
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You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
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Oregonians expect the state to prioritize the health and well-being of them and their families.
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It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.
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My husband says I can do anything I put my mind to, but the truth i, the only thing I want to do is act.
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I think a lot of rock stars take themselves too seriously. Then again, if you want to be a ‘star’ you’ve got to appear to take yourself very seriously indeed. I, unfortunately, could never do this for any length of time. Probably because of my upbringing, my feet were planted far too firmly on the ground. I found the rock star thing pretty laughable. I couldn’t take those types seriously. If I had, I would probably have got further along in the business.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.
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All my work comes out of my life.
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“I am a school teacher doing life and death sums.”
