Wendy Davis Quotes
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.
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You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
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I feel good. I've got a lot of energy. I've got a lot of purpose, too.
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Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
