Allen Steele Quotes
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
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I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
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Azarius, for his part, had not made her voyage to the depths of pain to understand that death and birth, in that place, have almost the same tragic meaning.
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First, I wanna say 'peace' to my mother. She's not here but I gotta give a 'peace out' to her because I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my mother.
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In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he Pursewarden had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language'. (VIII)
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I can't do it, I can't conceive You're everything you're trying to make me believe 'Cause this show is too well designed Too well to be held with only me in mind And how, how am I different? How, how am I different?
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Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.
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I was 15 when I got my first job as a proofreader for an advertising agency in the City, earning £12 a week. But by then, I was already playing darts tournaments every weekend, regularly winning the £50 first prize. By the time I was 16 and winning two or three contests a weekend, I ditched the agency job and concentrated on darts.
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I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance
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The main motivation was to explore the empire's falling. I mean 'Duck City' is like an allegory for the Western Empire or the United States. And I was thinking what happens when it falls and declines like the Roman Empire.
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Nothing panics politicians like $4 a gallon gas.
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Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
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Faith is a great thing. The trick is keeping it.
