Patricia Reilly Giff Quotes
To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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I've never been a partier.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.
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Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.
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It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.
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In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
