Alice Munro Quotes
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.
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I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know what it is supposed to be like.
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I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.
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God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
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I have a history of bringing people together.
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
