Louise Penny Quotes
I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.

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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
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I'm so happy when I'm working.
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I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.
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Life has not been boring for me.
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It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance or downtown dance, ballet is formalized, and there's something orthodox about it that I like. I like that there's less emphasis on subversion and innovation. I actually think that my musical vernacular or my musical voice is also less inclined toward innovation and subversion. I think I'm a traditionalist.
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I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.
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There's comedians who I consider extremely punk rock who I've seen do very political stand up in places where nobody wants to hear that. It's uncomfortable and scary and you realize it's the punkest performance you've ever witnessed.
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I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.