Cynthia Lord Quotes
Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
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Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.
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Littlenecks and cherrystones are chewy and sweet on the half shell with mignonette, served raw. But a well-cooked clam is a toothsome, tender thing, full of that magical stuff known as clam liquor.
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I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
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The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.
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There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
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Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.
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I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
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I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word.
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Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
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No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.
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For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
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I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.
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The book of Revelation is a book of worship that summons us to recognize the awesome majesty of our Lord.
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Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman.
