Anne Conway Quotes
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
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I travel to a lot of schools, and I see firsthand that while we do still have a lot of traditional readers, we don't have as many as we used to. And we're missing an awful lot of kids entirely... Do I want to get rid of the Internet? Obviously, I don't want that because of all the amazing things it brings.
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Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden. Along with sunshine, there's got to be a little rain sometime.
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Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.
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If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.
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The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
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It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
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While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation. Justice is not a gift; it’s a lifestyle, a commitment to the Jewish concept of tikkun olam—‘repairing the world.’
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Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
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My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.
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I was lucky enough to meet the Material Girl twice.
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At the beginning of the season, when you thought of Pittsburgh you thought about a team that was regrouping. I didn't think they would be 17-3 at this point. I'm excited to do this game.
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You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And empathy is one of those muscles.
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Spirit and body differ not essentially, but gradually.
