Rebecca Stead Quotes
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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I think sometimes when you begin to examine things - like yourself - suddenly you can just freak out and not want to go any further.
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There's nothing glamorous about being dead.
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The lack of work destroys people.
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The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
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I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
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These were the days when I powerfully believed Breyers and Entenmann's to be pioneers in the field of antidepressants.
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Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.
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The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional nuclear arms race, and the greater risk of war - all that would endanger our [American] security.
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I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.
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The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.
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The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.
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My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.
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We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.
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Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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I want to be what I've always wanted to be: dominant.
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I don't know exactly what kind of training musical theater actors get, but I never had that.
