Gabrielle Roy Quotes
Florentine... Florentine Lacasse... half song, half squalor, half springtime, half misery,the young man murmured.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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Roma come before everything else.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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The subject of philosophy is very ancient. The word means: 'The love, study or pursuit of wisdom, or of knowledge of things and their causes, whether theoretical or practical.' All we know of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use.
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The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.
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I'm really bothered by questions of humanity, questions of war, questions of slavery.
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There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
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I don't start a song with an idea of what ingredients are going to go into a song. It's not like a recipe. I will normally either talk from personal experience or I'll make a character and then try to allow that character to behave the way he or she naturally would.
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Florentine... Florentine Lacasse... half song, half squalor, half springtime, half misery,the young man murmured.
