Marcia Fudge Quotes
We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
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I have selective hearing.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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On running For me running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.
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A culture that doesn't respect half its population will never prosper.
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I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.
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I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don't see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I'm an optimist - people feel that in my books.
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Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.
