Babe Didrikson Zaharias Quotes
The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.
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things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.
