Norman Rockwell Quotes
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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I've been racketeered on.
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
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There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.
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On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.
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I don't exercise.
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When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.
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...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.
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There is an endless range of parts I have not played. I would love to do a whole slew of period pieces. I also used to do a lot of stage work, and I would like to go back to that from time to time.
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I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.
