Olive Schreiner Quotes
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
Quotes to Explore
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I don't care about revenues.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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There's six of us, and they didn't treat any of us different. They loved us the same. They treated us all the same, and I just want to be like them when I grow up.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.
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...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
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I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.
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I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
