Pamela Dean Quotes
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
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If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
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No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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I'm not just a rapper. I'm a child educator.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
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To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.
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I have but one life to give to adventure.
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The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
