Gail Carriger Quotes
I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass.
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My first policy move would be to try to get a conversation going in the US about what people stand for and what we really want. Do we want to keep adding people to the world and to our country until we move to a battery-chicken kind of existence and then collapse? Or do we want to think hard about what really is valuable to us, and figure out how many people we can supply that to sustainably?
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The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.
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The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
