Angela Bowie Quotes
Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own, but I'm not interested in other people's. It's something you tolerate because they are yours.
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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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My health is fine.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.
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I am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.
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At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.
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One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.
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Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own, but I'm not interested in other people's. It's something you tolerate because they are yours.
