Alison McGhee Quotes
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.
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I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
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I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
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The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
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Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
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There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
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The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.
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One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it. So most people agree that one of the worst stains on the reputation of FDR, who is widely considered a great president, is the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Likewise, Lincoln is judged harshly for the suspension of habeas corpus.
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When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn.
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The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.
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When you have made it in life, you must give back to those who made you.
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Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.
