Michelle Huneven Quotes
Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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I started out doing musicals.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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You either like something, or you don't; you won't change your opinion because somebody explains why you should like it.
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The time is always right to do what is right.
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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
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The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.
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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
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Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.
