Margaret Forster Quotes
I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
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I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
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Countries aren't built by boring people.
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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.
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There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.
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Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.
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In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.
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Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
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AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.
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If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe.
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
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I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.
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If it’s anything that’s going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don’t think the end justifies the means. … Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can’t really address that.
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Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way.'
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
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“Telling stories about your memory of what happened may be entertaining for a while, but if that is all you can do it gets boring pretty fast.”
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Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.
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When I was a kid, I got really great advice from someone who is so important to me and someone who I respect so much, and they told me, 'Don't do too many endorsements. Don't throw your name on things; think of your longevity.'
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The precursors to a civilization that’s going under are the same, time and time again. … What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?
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In a husband, there is only a man; in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
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I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.
