M. N. Roy Quotes
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
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'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'
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So here I am.On the road again.There I am,Up on the stage.And here I go,Playin' the star again.There I go,Turn the page.
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I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.
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How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?
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The question, 'How well does one read?' is a bad question... essentially unanswerable. A more proper question is 'How well does one read poetry, or history, or science, or religion?' No one I have ever known is so brilliant as to have learned the languages of all fields of knowledge equally well. Most of us do not learn some of them at all.
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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.
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Freedom, knowledge, truth are values to be appreciated together by living them.
