Elizabeth Ray Quotes
I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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I don't get bothered by fans.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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Ty Walker doesn't wear suits very much. He's not used to being that pressed and conservative businessman. So, he's self-conscious anyway about walking around in these skinny-legged suits, and then for someone to sort of assume that's who he is, it really bothers him.
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Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
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Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.
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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
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My works have always been unjoined. People were always making variations of my works, and I just said, "I don't want to know." You can't put limits on those pieces. You can't be there all of the time when they're installed.
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I think sometimes you have to handle things delicately at work or at home. You know, you can find yourself in situations that are like opening a closet filled with bowling balls that are going to fall out of it, but if you handle things graciously, then that's not going to happen.
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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
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In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
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There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
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I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.
