Kate Grenville Quotes
I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China's reform.
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My bed is actually two king beds put together.
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His Holiness Pope John Paul II was a determined and deeply spiritual minded person for whom I had great respect and admiration. His experience in Poland, then a communist country, and my own difficulties with communists, gave us an immediate common ground
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Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
