Clara Jeffery Quotes
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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I am a contrarian.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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It's very hard to track down what's real and what's not real. We haven't absorbed what climate change is doing. Because whether people associate it or not, fear of immigration is completely related to climate change, because the mass migrations that are happening, the war in Syria, all of these structural human migrations are related to climate change.
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I'm not going to let Donald Trump take away from our community, something that Fannie Lou Hamer shed blood to give us. Something that Ella Jo Baker braved conditions in the South and sweatshops in Harlem to give us.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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There are always younger and better dancers fighting to get your place. You get worn down by the fight to try to stay at the top.
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I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.
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