Pamela Sargent Quotes
'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
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The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.
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When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
