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'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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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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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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As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.
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The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences.
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Maybe being good isn't about getting rid of anything. Maybe being good has to do with living in the mess in the frailty in the failures in the flaws. Maybe what I tried to get rid of is the goodest part of me. Think Passion. Think Age. Think Round. Maybe good is about developing the capacity to live fully inside everything. Our body is our country, the only city, the only village, the only every we will ever know.
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Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.
