Pamela Dean Quotes
I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.
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I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, though, so if I can go to the gym and box for 30 minutes, I will.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.
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There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send him my demos all the time.
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When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
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I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
