Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
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Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page in the German and British academic tradition.
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He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.
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Harriet: making an excuse Um... I'm looking for a copy of The Wheat-Free Guide to Creative Visualization in Co-dependent Past-Life Relationships.Mo: Huh. Jeez, I never heard of that one... Wonder if it's in spirituality or cooking.
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My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.
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We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.
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Too many Californians are struggling to make ends meet, pay the bills, and send their kids to college. They are looking for progressive leaders in Washington who will fight for them, like Senator Boxer has done for over 20 years.
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At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
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I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.
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Make no mistake, it is precisely our moral authority that is our greatest source of strength, and it is precisely our moral authority that has been recklessly put at risk by the cheap calculations and mean compromises of conscience wagered with history by this willful president.
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I want to play. Obviously we didn't get it done the first time I was a part of that team. If God blesses me with another opportunity to try it, it would be an honor. I would have a second shot at fulfilling one of my goals.
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The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
