Lurlene McDaniel Quotes
By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.
Lurlene McDaniel
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
Harry Browne
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
Nathan Lane
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
Natalie Merchant
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
Edgar Ramirez
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J. G. Ballard
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
Halldor Laxness
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
Calvin Johnson
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
Vidya Balan
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
Malcolm Boyd
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And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.
Dan Rather
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And thus I came through storm to peace, not to the peace of an untroubled sea of outer life, which no strong soul can crave, but to an inner peace that outer troubles may not avail to ruffle-a peace which belongs to the eternal not to the transitory, to the depths not to the shallows of life.
Annie Besant
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When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.
Adam McKay
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By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.
Lurlene McDaniel
