Margaret Atwood Quotes
Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
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Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
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Tennessee obviously has a proud history of military service, but unfortunately, that also means that we have lost a lot of people serving the country who are Tennesseans.
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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I knew for years I wanted to write a novel that addressed the personal trauma of my older sister, who suffered - and still suffers - from mental illness. For a long time I imagined - and I know it's absurd - that she was an indirect casualty of the Vietnam War.
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Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.
