Michelle MacLaren Quotes
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
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Between man and his social environment there is a reciprocal action. Men make society what it is and society makes men what they are, and the result is therefore a kind of vicious circle.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
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Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself
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'Once Upon a Time in the West' is one of my favorite films.
