Ann Packer Quotes
I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense.
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I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.
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I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.
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I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.
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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
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I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.
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Mum tries to make every race that she can.
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My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.
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I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
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I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
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I'm really enjoying being able to do these unhinged comedies and emotional dramas alike. I'm having a lovely time. After shooting a role that requires months of crying, it's quite nice to be able to play something very different.
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When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.
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Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.
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My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
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When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
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So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.
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Airbnb is about the nexus of the online and offline to create the perfect customer experience.
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In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
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One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's pie, and I really adored that.
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We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.
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I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense.
