Elissa Schappell Quotes
The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.
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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
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Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry.
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The stories in Dawn Raffel's astonishing Further Adventures in the Restless Universe as as sharp and bright as stars.
