Amity Gaige Quotes
There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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Niall Ferguson is an intellectual fraud whose job, for years, has been to impress dumb, rich Americans with his accent and flatter them with his writings.
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There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.
