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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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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'I don’t trust you.''Of course you don’t. I know I wouldn’t. And I’m not asking you to. I’m not putting you in a situation in which your trust of me is even remotely relevant. I’m just pointing a gun to your head and giving you orders.'
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Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.
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Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.
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I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.
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I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.
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I'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.
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Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.
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Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
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I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That's my favorite compliment.
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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.
