Margaret Atwood Quotes
The fact is there are no stories I can tell my friends that will make them feel better. History cannot be erased, although we can soothe ourselves by speculating about it.Margaret Atwood
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
Floyd Skloot -
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance -
I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
Maika Monroe -
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam -
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
Wangari Maathai -
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
Orhan Pamuk
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
Oliver Stone -
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
Karen DeCrow -
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
Irvine Welsh -
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
Viggo Mortensen -
I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
Kate Moss -
Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
Taraji P. Henson
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
Paddy Ashdown -
We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
Barton Gellman -
And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
Patricia Clarkson -
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
Ralph Adams Cram -
Going to Peru is, well, if you ever have an opportunity in your life to go there, you should do it because it is absolutely mind boggling.
Dean Stockwell
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And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
Philip Kaufman -
I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
Eddi Reader -
Never in the history of niggadom...
Katt Williams -
The fact is there are no stories I can tell my friends that will make them feel better. History cannot be erased, although we can soothe ourselves by speculating about it.
Margaret Atwood