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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'We were making the future,' he said, 'and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!'
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Without God man has no reference point to define himself.
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Imagine if I had a real weapon!
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I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.
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Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.
