Carrie Vaughn Quotes
One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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I love football.
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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
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I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
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It was not necessary and might even have been disadvantageous for a government to claim a direct personal commission and communion of the kind God had given some rulers in the Old Testament. A working government might need the support of the Church but not of God Himself in a voice from on high.
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My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analogous to Western epics. They're based on history, just like 'the Iliad' and 'the Odyssey' are based on history, but they're romanticized, and a lot of fantasy elements have been added.
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The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.
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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.
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Hard work makes us better people and helps our communities flourish.
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In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.
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One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.
