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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I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.
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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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I call myself an accidental entrepreneur. I was all set to take up a brewing job in Scotland when a chance encounter with an Irish entrepreneur led me to set up a biotech business in India instead.
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With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.
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Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.
