Noel Riley Fitch Quotes
Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.
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Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
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Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
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My mother was born in a refugee camp in Germany before the family immigrated to western Canada. They were able to get visas thanks to my grandfather's older sister, who had immigrated between the wars.
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I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
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Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.
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Liberalism was failing. If I'd been German and not a Jew, I could see I might have become a Nazi, a German nationalist. I could see how they'd become passionate about saving the nation. It was a time when you didn't believe there was a future unless the world was fundamentally transformed.
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Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes life into the subject.
