Maria Cantwell Quotes
We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.
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I love Australia, and I especially love those rugby players.
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I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
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We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.
