William Sleator Quotes
Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
Quotes to Explore
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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Back during the most dramatic and challenging time in our history, when we first came together with wolves, we had no idea that it was changing everything, but we literally evolved together. Without us there would be no dogs, and vice versa.
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Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
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Sports saved my life.
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I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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The sweet mellifluous milking of the cow.
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The object of art - like every other product - creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.
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‘When I say 'mind,'’ said the blood relation, ‘I refer to the quarter-teaspoonful of brain which you might possibly find in her head if you sank an artesian well.’
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Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.
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I still have deep respect for the evangelical tradition and feel, in many ways, close to the Baptist roots of my childhood, although I've been an Episcopalian throughout my adult life and a regular churchgoer.
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I see all the musicians in Blur with equal standing, really.
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Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.
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If you listen to the first, second, and third chorus of a song, they don't sound the same. It's the same melody and all that, but what really happens is that the energy changes. It's all about getting the listener to keep his or her concentration.
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Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.
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We never really did anything just for fun.
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I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything. Even with my last day job, I'd sleep in later and later and start coming in an hour-and-a-half late. I got fired twice before I really got fired.
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Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
