Margaret Stohl Quotes
People ask why do I write strong women characters, and basically, all the girls I know are strong; the girls I've had are strong. The women in my life are strong.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.
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The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.
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When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
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In Europe they're more calm, more reserved. Here, in the States, people are more wild, a little more open. I guess it takes a lot to impress those people up there in Europe. Especially in London.
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To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. ... Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
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Taking improv has helped every other aspect of my field.
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People ask why do I write strong women characters, and basically, all the girls I know are strong; the girls I've had are strong. The women in my life are strong.
