Margaret Millar Quotes
That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
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When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.
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It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.
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Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
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That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.
