Ally Condie Quotes
There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works.
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From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks
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I like getting to be in the adult world a little bit and then getting to be in the mom world and cook dinners. And, for me, that balance is what makes it nice.
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I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.
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It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
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There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
