Michelle Dean Quotes
I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication because we share those very important things of our families, our mothering, of improving opportunities for the next generation.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.
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No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
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I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!
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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
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My interest in theater really began in the '70s when American realism wasn't really in favor. I really dreaded going into a play that had a toaster that worked. I just didn't want to see that.
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You can't all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It's bit by bit by bit.
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I don't have any phobias per se, but both tight and vast spaces tend to make me nervous after a prolonged time.
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Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of his skepticism and join the battle.
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.
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I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.
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I like debate and argument, so I'm usually all right with disagreement, and I'm even all right if the critic doesn't come to a clear thumbs up or thumbs down. But I need the disagreement to have some kind of line I can follow on the map. I like following an interesting mind along it.
