Emily Rodda Quotes
A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.
Quotes to Explore
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
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No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.
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Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.
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The dead don't die. They look on and help.
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One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.
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When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
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We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll overtake us, and we'll self-destruct.
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The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.
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I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and I really feel like people who have left before me have always stayed with the show. They never really quite left, which is nice. Everyone kind of stays close.
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The next move is with the head, and fists must wait.
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Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.
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Some of these little girls are afraid to admit they are getting older. I am not afraid. You can't put your finger in the sun and stop time.
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Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.
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Every book leaves its mark on you. It might leave you hungry for that kind of book or you may be satiated, and you're eager to read something else. It might send you in a completely different direction. I love that about reading.
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A book is like a door. You walk through the cover and you don't know what you're going to find.
