Ashley Johnson Quotes
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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In Romania, I train on a bar that is bent. My gym has bad lighting and very little heat in the winters. Here in America, you have everything you need to train. It's not in the bar or the gym or the platform it's in you.
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I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her - 'Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness...'
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If the goal is to lower emissions, that's disconnected to most people. If the goal is to save taxpayers' money, now the public has some interest.
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I'm one of those people who really likes to do my research.
