Ally Walker Quotes
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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I guess because there aren't many women working in the kind of variety of spaces that I've had the opportunity and privilege to kind of work in, that there is this extreme scrutiny about my career.
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My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.
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If you can't get cell phone service in your living room, then your particular provider is failing you. You should have the option to find a network that does work.
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I worked with Cameron Crowe, and I'd love to work with him again.
