Tamora Pierce Quotes
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.
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The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain.
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When I heard the news that Steve Jobs had died, my mind flashed back to 1985, when I began my love affair with computers. I was stationed in Moscow for The Associated Press, and I ordered an Apple IIc - by Telex - from a department store in Helsinki, Finland. They express-shipped it to me, a month later, by train.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
