Sue Townsend (Susan Lillian Townsend) Quotes
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.
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Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.
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May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
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After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.
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Country music has always sort of been country music.
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Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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I love creating that community and writing about that place, because I think, in some ways, Bois Sauvage is like the DeLisle of my past; it's like the DeLisle of the '80s that I can never return to. So in some ways, when I write about Bois Sauvage, I'm writing about a home that I've lost.
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In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.
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If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
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I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
