Andre Norton Quotes
He was listening, too, for it is through the eyes and ears that one learns. A spiderweb of facts can tie up the lion of action; not to know is bad; not to strive to know is worse.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.
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I read about two reviews early on when my first record came out, and it just freaked me out, good and bad, so I've never really kept up with that side of it.
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Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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He was listening, too, for it is through the eyes and ears that one learns. A spiderweb of facts can tie up the lion of action; not to know is bad; not to strive to know is worse.
