Tracy Chevalier Quotes
We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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I think my job is to keep the ball down. I always say I try to go out there and get early contact, and strikeouts just seem to happen.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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The best thing about being from Britain is that it's a melting pot of cultures, characters, and creativity. I couldn't imagine coming from anywhere else.
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
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Scientology is the only specific (cure) for radiation (atomic bomb) burns.
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
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Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'
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When he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?
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The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.
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So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
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My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.
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Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
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We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.
