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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We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
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When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.
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If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
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I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
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Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.
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Steph thinks you can wear makeup and still find Narnia.Well, so do I, but why make things harder?
