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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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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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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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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 used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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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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My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.
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You've got what looks like a year-end balance sheet. It's like memorizing an entire Excel file.
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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.
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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.
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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.
