Michelle Moran Quotes
After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.
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Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.
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I think it’s more to do with economics now. Earlier, one used to wait in queues for hours in the heat, trying to buy a ticket, to go and see Shammiji in Junglee or Dilip saheb in Ganga Jamuna. Whereas now, thanks to the video boom, one gets the stars in one’s bedroom at a snap of one’s fingers. There is no mystique left.
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You move me, you move me.with your buildings and your eyesAutumn woods and Winter skies.You move me, you move me.Open sea and city lights, busy streets and dizzy heights.You call me, you call me. - The Analog Kid (1982)
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Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
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Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
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In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.
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I think R&B is way bigger in America. It's not really that mainstream in the U.K.
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After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
