Kate Stoltzfus Quotes
The one thing about Amish life that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.
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Let the gossip roll! What to me are Hamlet's garters, or the whirlwind of Salome's dance, or the tread of the Man in the Iron Mask? I am more iron than they.
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This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.
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Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.
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I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?
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I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.
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I feel a loyalty to my favorite artists, and to have my fans feel that, for me, is a special bond because I've been there for so long.
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I love the people I work with and the stuff I've found and that's found me.
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I have this ability to really leave set and just cut off from it immediately.
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More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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To make real change, you have to be well anchored - not only in the belief that it can be done, but also in some pretty real ways about who you are and what you can do.
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I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.
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No detail is too minor to note.
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I'm not patient at all. I avoid writer's block by writing. I power through with a bad version, so I can move on, and usually once I've gotten to the next scene, I'll discover what was missing from the bad version scene. Then I can easily rewrite it to get back on the right path.
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You want to know what I was thinking?...I was thinking that I wished you'd been with me the last couple of days. I mean, I enjoyed getting to know everyone better. We ate lunch together, and the dinner last night was a lot of fun, but it just felt like something was wrong, like I was missing something. It wasn't until I saw you walking up the beach that I realized it was you.
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Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.
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Only the fresh revolutionary storms were strong enough to sweep away hoary prejudices against woman and only the productive-working people is able to effect the complete equalization and liberation of woman by building a new society.
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The one thing about Amish life that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider.
