Adora Svitak Quotes
My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other.
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There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.
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Restrictions will set you free.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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Artist and illustrator R. Crumb did a whole illustration of Genesis. And he didn't go away from the text; he was totally truthful. Reading through that, I was like, "Oh, wow, it's a comic-book version of the Bible." There's a lot of heavy-duty stuff that goes on that doesn't make it into Sunday school.
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My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.
