Errollyn Wallen Quotes
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
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I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
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I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
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In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.
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I need to lose some weight. I'm getting really fat. But I'm getting older, and I just can't stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.
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'How, in this day and age, can any one of you claim to be better than your fellow human beings?''Because we are,' said Marilyn Deighton-True with a shrug. 'Face reality, Giles, or it will face you. You can spout all the socialiste nouveau crap you like, but it simply doesn’t apply to a meritocracy.'
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The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)
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Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
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We, the American people, owe the nation's police officers our deepest gratitude, our best efforts, and our strong support, for they have done so much for us against such great odds.
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.
