Gabrielle Roy Quotes
Her shoulders sagging, her back hunched, her eyelids tired, Rose-Anna sewed for the feast, not daring even to sing for fear of frightening off her joy.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
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I read that speaking in front of a crowd is the number-one fear in America. I found that amazing. Number two was death. Number two! That means that, if you're ever at a funeral, you'd rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy.
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Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
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When that which I have chosen to focus upon in this moment evokes love or joy or appreciation, I am, in that moment, offering my greatest value to myself, to my current object of attention and to All-That-Is.
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I've always been kind of a loner. Continue to be.
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Her shoulders sagging, her back hunched, her eyelids tired, Rose-Anna sewed for the feast, not daring even to sing for fear of frightening off her joy.
