Tansy Rayner Roberts Quotes
History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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My first car was a motorcycle.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relationships and finding what will last forever.
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That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased.
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History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
