Luanne Rice Quotes
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
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I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
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If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
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Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
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Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.
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The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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Cars have a large engine in the front and you have a gearbox, which is cumbersome. Electric cars don't have this problem. The motor is much smaller, the battery is below you. This will allow you to play with different shapes.
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
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From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.
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I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
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Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?
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My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.
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That's one of the reasons I'm vegan. Death terrifies me. I don't want to impose death on anyone else.
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After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.
