Maria das Gracas Silva Foster Quotes
I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
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I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview.
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There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.
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I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.
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I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.
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I've been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when people care, it's the greatest thing in the world - even when it's passionately against the title - because it's going to start a conversation.
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My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.
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I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.
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My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.
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Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.
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Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.
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Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.
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I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.
