Laura Wade Quotes
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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The world needs some help.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa.
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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. The rich are always advising the poor; but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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I've never really been the type to dress up like the other girls do. I'm more of a casual, relaxed kind of girl. More athletic.
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I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
