Kaye Gibbons Quotes
I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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What you see is what you get.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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Viggo Mortensen had the biggest impact on me in terms of approach, dedication, intention, and artistic outlook, and I'm nowhere close to how good he is as an artist, and I wouldn't even put myself in the same category as an actor.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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There is a lot more hard work to do in the future for the well-being of our sisters and brothers, the people of Thailand.
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She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.
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Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
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The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood, Fan.
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My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.
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I grew up in a close-knit community where I was expected to excel, and it was a different experience when I got to the university. There were very few students of color, and those numbers were extremely low in the school of engineering.
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I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.
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Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.
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When I started doing 'The City' in 1990, most papers ran it the width of the page, 10 inches or so. It was great! I had lots of room to draw and write. It was the golden age of weekly comix. Today, most run my strip half that size. I just try to make it legible. It's very frustrating.
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People buy products if they're better.
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I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children - children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it.
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I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.
