Nicole Maines (Nicole Amber Maines) Quotes
The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
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When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
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The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.
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We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
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A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
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Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.
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Women who make the choice to have grey hair - I think that's beautiful.
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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
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If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
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I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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Nobody is born a drug addict or a homosexual. Christians may be performing in these unacceptable ways, but that's not who they are. It's an identity issue.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Go forward with new zeal and determination, and through your example shine the light of the gospel in this troubled world.
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The first thing that's really important to understand, just when approaching the topic of transgender people, is that the sex you're assigned with at birth is not the same as your gender identity.
