Aleatha Romig Quotes
My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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I usually work on a film soundtrack for two years, turning in a song every few months, and that keeps my creative energy high, because I'm constantly rotating projects. The trick is to make sure I don't work too hard and get exhausted.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.
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The Rolling Stones seemed very loose and wild, but when you read about them, you realize that everything they did is very deliberate.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. No animal of mine has ever told me he was ready to die. I wish it were that simple. Dogs can communicate, but they cannot talk, nor do they think in our language or on our terms.
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When I first read 'At Freddie's', I was struggling with my own writing, particularly with how to write about a sad subject - the death of a parent - without writing an entirely sad book.
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Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
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My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.
