Laura Riding Quotes
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
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...kidnappings, vanishings, 'what if' scenarios about how to get Republicans out of the White House if they'd got in.
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To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.
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All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.
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“To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.