Lorraine Adams Quotes
I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.
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There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
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When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
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I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.
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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
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My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.
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Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.
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I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.
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I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.
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I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.
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I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in.
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Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
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A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.
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It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.
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Our camps and workshops offer a space where girls of color can learn computer science and coding principles alongside their peers, with mentorship from female role models who have established themselves in tech fields where women, and minority women in particular, tend to be underrepresented.
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I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be convinced and I have to be surprised.
