Ann Aguirre Quotes
I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.
Quotes to Explore
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.
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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
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These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
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I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
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I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.
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Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.
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South India has beautiful villages.
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You were seen, you were heard and you matter.
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Outside everything was uncannily visible in the light of the full moon, but here in the dark shaded alleys the night was conscious of itself.
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The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.
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I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.
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And, as a matter of fact, I am the chairman of the Amadou Diallo Foundation.
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I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.
