Pamela Dean Quotes
Steph thinks you can wear makeup and still find Narnia.Well, so do I, but why make things harder?
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.
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The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!
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Steph thinks you can wear makeup and still find Narnia.Well, so do I, but why make things harder?
