Julie Kagawa Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya.
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.
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Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.
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Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.
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Any time you lose, it's tough. There are always 50 plays where you could have won and 50 plays where you could have lost.
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You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.
