Christine Maggiore Quotes
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With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
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A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
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We are worried about pressure being put on inspectors by certain circles in Washington
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Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.
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We have pursued public policies that kind of hold the recovery back, but the private economy is really starting to roll.
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You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose
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Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children are loved. In the home, parents should teach their children the great lessons of life. Home should be the center of one’s earthly experience, where love and mutual respect are appropriately blended.
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The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.
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We can be encouraged knowing that our daily actions and words are declaring Christ to the world.
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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
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I have no weapon but nonviolence.
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There is not a lot of separation between work and home life.
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The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.
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Paying attention to the present moment without letting your thoughts and ideas about the past and the future get in the way is essential. Why? Because it makes room for the views of others. It allows us to begin to trust them—and, more important, to hear them. It makes us willing to experiment, and it makes it safe to try something that may fail. It encourages us to work on our awareness, trying to set up our own feedback loop in which paying attention improves our ability to pay attention. It requires us to understand that to advance creatively, we must let go of something. As the composer Philip Glass once said, “The real issue is not how do you find your voice, but … getting rid of the damn thing.
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Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'
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I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue
