Delia Sherman Quotes
Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
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I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
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I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
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Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.
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Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
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The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.
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I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big moves and gained a lot of fans.
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I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it.
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Coach Wooden, when he speaks, you listen. I've taken a lot of things from him and his little blue book because to him, it's not just about basketball, it's about life as well.
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I like to dress for my shape - I think it's important for women to do that generally - it makes me feel good.
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Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.
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The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.
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There is no need for fairy-tale conclusions in the real world.
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Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.
