Amber Frey Quotes
I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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White Americans can go a long time without ever thinking about the color of their skin. Black and brown Americans have no choice but to confront issues of race every day.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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I know not whether Laws be right,Or whether Laws be wrong;All that we know who lie in gaolIs that the wall is strong;And that each day is like a year,A year whose days are long.
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Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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They were some of the best years of my life, and I'm so thankful I was able to go to Stanford.
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The path of peace for us is to hand ourselves over to God and ask Him to search us, not what we think we are, or what other people think we are, or what we persuade ourselves we are or would like to be, but 'Search me out, O God, explore me as I really am in Thy sight.'
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All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.
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My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.
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I'm 50-50 on glamour stuff. I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.
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I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.
