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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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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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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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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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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More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
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It's just this huge sense of relief I have with myself right now... It took me to be 31 to go, 'Wow, I'm really happy being a model.'
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A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker.
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I've never done any nudity, but I would do basically anything if a role called for it.
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I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.
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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.
