Miriam Toews Quotes
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.
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Years are not important, my dear.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.
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A lot of people don't know how to talk on the phone anymore.
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Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seen dashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
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Meditation, like masturbation, has until recently been considered a form of self-abuse.
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Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn't always hold.
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I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.
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His feelings for Adam were an oil spill; he'd let them overflow and now there wasn't a damn place in the ocean that wouldn't catch fire if he dropped a match.
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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
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I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh my God, I'd be totally lost.
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If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.
