Tracy Chevalier Quotes
Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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I'm real pleased and humbled by the support that the fans show.
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Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification.
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I'm finding writing very fascinating.
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I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or five months of my life to something even if I'm overpaid, it's four or five months of my life away from home, away from my son, away from family and friends. I better believe in it on some level even if it's a big movie.
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What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.
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Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.
