Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes
Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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The palace is not safe, when the cottage is not happy.
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The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.
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And because the nature of inner being is bliss, infinite happiness, therefore the mind during TM takes that inward course in a most spontaneous manner.
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As a scientist in charge of space sensors and entire space missions before I was at NASA, I myself was involved in projects that overran. But that's no excuse for remaining silent about this growing problem or failing to champion reform.
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Sometimes when I find myself very irritated about a topic, I know it's my next book.
