Cate Marvin Quotes
I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'
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We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.
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Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
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I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.
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We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.
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All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.
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I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.
