Alison Croggon Quotes
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.
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More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.
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It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.
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Many support what I am doing.
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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In the midst of events there is no perspective.
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
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These palms are driving me crazy; the motifs are extremely difficult to seize, to put on canvas; it's so bushy everywhere, although delightful to the eye.. .I would like to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but cannot find them as I would like.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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I cannot ever accept the kind of conditions where you can sacrifice someone’s rights.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.
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I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
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I would love to be able to have a brain that just captures everything.
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I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.
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Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.
