Elaine S. Dalton Quotes
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.
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They have a tendency to get beaten up or thrown off a cliff, I know. Why does that happen with me?
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Dango, Pume, Thwither: down with Visbhume’s breeches; let him hold his backside at the ready.
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes has burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
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I slept with a woman on the ship, and afterwards I was thinking, 'Am I gaaaay? Am I straaaaight?' And then I realized: I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
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Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.
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Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit.
Colson Whitehead -
I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?
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Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.
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Virtue is the strength and power of the daughters of God.
