Debra Monroe Quotes
Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with the genre that Mary Karr calls, half-facetiously, "literature's trashy cousin."
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'
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Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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He is energetic only in evading responsibility.
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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All I'll say is... I'm at a point in life when nothing feels shocking to me. I need something to shock me! I'm almost ready to see a U.F.O.
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Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.
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When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear.
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There are lots of things to do. Lots of movies to catch. Lots of places to visit... I try to bring in every real life experience into my acting.
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Fleetwood Mac are more like a folk-rock band.
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Children ask questions much more than adults do, and you have to wonder if this is something we have that we lose.
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I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.
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If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
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It's couture. Everything has to be done by hand. That is most important. That is the crucial element. Without it, that is not couture anymore.
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Like any young person, I do what I want.
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I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.
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When I read 'Maus,' I realized you could tell a story of tremendous import using the graphic novel.
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And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.
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When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still the standard except for Kenya and Ethiopia. I was doing 150-250 a week and some weeks as high as 350. It was unheard of! But, because I did not have access to what was possible and standard, I had to set my own possibilities and standards. I was just lucky enough to be out of the loop and not know.
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Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.
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All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
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Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with the genre that Mary Karr calls, half-facetiously, "literature's trashy cousin."
