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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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 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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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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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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I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.
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Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
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Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.
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Don't look back!
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!
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If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
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I have a lifelong devotion to public service.
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Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies but cultivates more violence.
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All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.
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'And now,' cried Max, 'let the wild rumpus start!'
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Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.
