Sy Montgomery Quotes
It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
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Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life.
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I am a bit of a head-in-the-sand person as concerns things happening beyond the walls of my study. And I don't feel particularly guilty about that. I figure that my primary job is producing the very best stories I am capable of writing, and that is what I concentrate upon doing. That is within my control.
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They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.
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The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
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Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
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Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.
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Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.
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If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!
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It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.
