Dawson Trotman Quotes
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.
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As an athlete, my health has always been important to me.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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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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I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
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I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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If you can't see very far aheadgo ahead as far as you can see.
