Deborah Meier Quotes
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
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I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.
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I always write the pieces I want to write.
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Mede spoke with amused tolerance, as physicists generally speak of biologists.
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The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.
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The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or the artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.
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Stop thinking about failing.
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Won't you rather make love, childrenAs opposed to war, like you know you should?
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In some communities it is - like, for me, coming out with my parents, they were not accepting; they were not understanding. So it depends. For kids in New York and L.A., maybe it's different, but for kids in Iowa, for kids in Tennessee, it's still something that's not really talked about.
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Given charge Ballard would have made things more orderly in the woods and in men's souls. (p.128)
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If I'm who I am because I'm who I am and you're who you are because you are who you are, then I'm who I am and you're who you are. If, on the other hand, I'm who I am because you're who you are, and if you're who you are because I'm who I am, then I'm not who I am and you're not who you are.
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They should all have their own speech patterns with their own tics and little foibles. It's fun working all that out ahead of time.
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Teaching is listening, learning is talking.
