Elizabeth George Speare Quotes
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.
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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.
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Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.
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How do you project a character if you don't have a sense of where she is from? I've always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.
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I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's what matters. But it wasn't that great for me because it was kinda like going back into the old times without the guy.
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I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.
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A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
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Don't be afraid to scrape the paint off and do it again. This is the way you learn, trial and error, over and over, repetition. It pays you great dividends, great, great dividends.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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Why do women go out with jerks? Because jerks ask.
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What we have to remember is that children matter as much as adults, but they aren't equal with adults.
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What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.
