Pamela Dean Quotes
I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.

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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
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Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?
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We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.
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Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.
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The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word 'No.'
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I was the first one to say that there could be comfortable, sexy shoes, and it's a big part of our brand.
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I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.