Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes
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One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
Dan Hill
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For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.
Adam Grant
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I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy.
Eddie Murphy
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The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.
Ina Garten
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Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
Edgar Wright
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Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
Samina Baig
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Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
Lamar S. Smith
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
Irvine Welsh
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Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.
William Styron
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I am against any reconciliation with Israel.
Hassan Nasrallah
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
Salman Rushdie
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Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.
Catherine Drinker Bowen