Edmonia Lewis Quotes
Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.
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I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.
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You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.
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Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who's always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.
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It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us.
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Getting older is fine. There is nothing you can do to stop it so you might as well stay on the bus.
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Until I was twelve years old, I led this wandering life, fishing, swimming, and making moccasins.
