Nora Waln Quotes
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Russians don't complain, usually.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.
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I was an average student. I wasn't any standout. I remember when people started to know who I was and the label offers, people started to get a little weird and be weird around me.
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God designed humans to live in community.
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I'm grateful for my family: that's what defines me; that's what makes me whole.
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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
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Touring gets really lonely.
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“Happiness springs up of itself in a united family. - House of Exile”
