Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.
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I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That's my mentality. If it's Michael Jordan, you know, that's the mentality I take to the court.
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I didn't go to drama school to be a musical theatre performer. I enjoyed it, but I didn't go to do that; I went to be an actor.
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Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.
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I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.
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Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's possible. And it's your turn. So go for it. It's never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.
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My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.
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Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
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There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
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Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.
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Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis.
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My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.
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'You're really, truly not going to kill everyone?' asked Marek. 'No!' shouted Arthur. 'Why do you keep asking? Do I look like some kind of crazy murderer?' 'No...' Marek sounded as if he did still think that but didn't want to upset Arthur.
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I feel I no longer fit in with these times.
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Alles, was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe.
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I always say as a celebrity you have two choices - you can be a celebrity, or you can be a role model. You can choose to just go to parties and do the red carpets and all that, or you can choose to be an example to these people.
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The Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly, so his chi agreed. And not only his chi but his clan too, because it judged a man by the work of his hands.
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Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.
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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.
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I'm a believer that satellite radio, whether I'm on it or not, will take off.
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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
