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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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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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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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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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People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.
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Since truffle oil and caviar aren't always in the budget, learning to tweak and enhance just a few ingredients and flavor combinations can help you transform those ordinary ingredients into the extraordinary!
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Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.
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Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.
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Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.
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We can all live longer, better, than we ever could before. You don't have to retire.
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I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.
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Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.
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Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
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Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.
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I think I would be very sad if I wasn't able to have a baby.
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There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul; the real question is what comes afterward. Can the post-Islamic State effort resolve the squabbling likely to arise over numerous issues and bring lasting stability to one of Iraq's most diverse and challenging provinces? Failure to do so could lead to ISIS 3.0.
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Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.
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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.
