Angela Rockwood Quotes
You never know what life can hand you, but YOU have the choice and power to give back love and kindness in all you do and how you treat others.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
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I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and all of no avail, if the keepers were so minded.
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O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
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I say, "Look, I'm here now. There must be a reason I'm here." If that's fatalistic, be that as it may. Where my work is, is where my life is, and if we're falling in the ocean, we're falling into the ocean.
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When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
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You never know what life can hand you, but YOU have the choice and power to give back love and kindness in all you do and how you treat others.
