Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.
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The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
Mandy Bujold -
I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I feel that if you shelter your kids from everything, one day they are going to be out in the world on their own, and they are going to have to figure it out. You can't give them a test if you never taught them anything that's on the test. They're going to fail.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
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Christina Stead has a Chinese say, 'Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us'-or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
