Alice Dreger Quotes
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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If you've got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn't you want that information - to vet it, to see if it's real information, and to use it accordingly?
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don't want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions.
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, 'Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?'
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Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
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I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.
