Norma Fox Mazer Quotes
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.
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I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.
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Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
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History will treat me right.
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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on reacting to racism I don't wanna be the better person. I don't wanna rise above it. I do wanna sink down to their level. I am not gonna turn the other cheek. 'I'mma gonna show you what cheek I'mma turn, OK!'
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When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.
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We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who refuse the witness of Christian writings, the historical character of Jesus Himself.
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A piece of writing takes exactly as long as it needs to be done right.
