Ann McKee Quotes
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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I don't judge my characters.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It's a process, but it's achievable... It's my job to be healthy.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.
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My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
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Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
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My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
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In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
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Hermione Granger is the mix of brain and heart that I've always wanted to be.
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I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.
