Mamie Van Doren Quotes
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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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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A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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There is no separation in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and companionship which are mine by divine right.
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I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.
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People who have never dealt with depression think it's just being sad or being in a bad mood. That's not what depression is for me; it's falling into a state of grayness and numbness.
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
