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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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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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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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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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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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.
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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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Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
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Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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Once we get beyond Mars, which formed from the same stuff as Earth, the likelihood that life is similar to what we find on this planet is very low.
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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.
