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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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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I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.
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If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: 'He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.'
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I like to learn. That's an art and a science.
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As a kid, I always used to make clothes. My grandmother made everything with me - she taught me how to knit.
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Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.
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Everyone always says, 'Kristen got 'Panic Room' because she looks like Jodie Foster.' But it was actually Nicole Kidman who was supposed to play my mother.
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Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.
