Deborah Meier Quotes
If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.
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You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.
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I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.
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It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.
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One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
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I'm not someone who puts their money in a fund that earns 2 to 5 percent a year. I'm a man who tries to change things, move something with my money, to create jobs and, of course, at the same time earn more money with it.
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Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.
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If you take existing ideas and make them affordable and scalable, you substantially change business models.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.
