Gabrielle Roy Quotes
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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Courts are supposed to interpret laws to avoid 'absurd results' and to avoid constitutional problems - such as infringing on the free speech rights of Americans.
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At our best, it's a good experience but we do 22 episodes a year, so there are some clunkers.
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If you know what you're doing, it's not interesting. It has to be a challenge; it has to seem impossible and urgent to do it. And then you do it.
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
