Antonya Nelson Quotes
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
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I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.
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You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.
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Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
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I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.
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Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.
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I want a man I can keep for myself. I wouldn't ever share my man with anyone else.
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The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.
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I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
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I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.
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I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!
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In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.
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Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.
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If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
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I feel like it's improving a little bit as we go on, but I've never been to Lilith Fair. It always seemed so cool that it was started by women, for women, and it was a safe place to go and hear all of your favorite female acts in one space.
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I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.
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There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.
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If someone thinks of something, some new innovation that benefits us all, and the market works properly, they get richly rewarded for that, and that's just terrific, and that creates inequality.
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I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.
