Kate Wilhelm Quotes
There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.
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Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.
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I played with a fracture in my foot for seven months without knowing it.
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They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
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I have met a lot of top chefs around the world during my travels. Each one of them has said 'Ratatouille' is their favorite movie and the only movie that truly captures what they do.
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What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hater.
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I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.
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You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.
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I don't always have the stomach muscles I have, and I get cellulite as well like everyone else.
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I take Him shopping with me. I say, OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain.
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While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.
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One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.
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Religious apologists complain bitterly that atheists and secularists are aggressive and hostile in their criticism of them. I always say: look, when you guys were in charge, you didn't argue with us, you just burnt us at the stake. Now what we're doing is, we're presenting you with some arguments and some challenging questions, and you complain.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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There's a belief that wherever your Ancestors took shape from the sticks and stones that formed them, that's home. Ancestors from the coast leave their mark, Ancestors from the mountains, from the desert, they all leave their mark on the genes. When you come home, the genes rejoice.
