Reem Acra Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
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For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.
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To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.
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Two hearts, Two hearts that beat as one Our lives have just begun.
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Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
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I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order they should be placed in an attempt to keep someone's attention and perhaps provide them with a laugh or two along the way.
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I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
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I do not believe on giving amnesty.
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I want to dominate the man's world.
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The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.
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By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
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A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
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Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.
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I hope women who wear my perfume will have men all over them.
