Ethel M. Dell Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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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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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
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Judges decide upon copyright law. They decide upon trademark law. They decide upon scientific issues. They decide upon very complex technical issues on a daily basis. So you must have confidence in the Supreme Court, that they will apply their mind and they will come out with a decision consistent with the Constitution.
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I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
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I don't know that I appreciate things more because of how I grew up, but I am very realistic with what I expect out of people and what they expect out of me.
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In such a way she had done what her people prized above all else: she had given her respect to those different from herself.
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Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.
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I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
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I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic.
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If it was up to me, every show would start at midnight, and I'd give people the best of me.
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Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.
