Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Quotes
My earnestness at the injustices I witnessed when I was writing 'Random Family' may have been my gravest reportorial offense during the early years of reporting. When I discuss the book with students, they often ask me how I could 'stand by' in the face of so much suffering; the egregiousness wasn't my powerlessness but my surprise.

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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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I'm not saying that players should go out and say random things, especially if they don't know anything about it. But I think players do know more than people give them credit for. People do research, and people are entitled to their own opinions.
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I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
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I think everyone must settle for what is in the parameter of their own rights. No one must have an evil intention toward the territorial benefit or integrity of other nations.
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The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.
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My earnestness at the injustices I witnessed when I was writing 'Random Family' may have been my gravest reportorial offense during the early years of reporting. When I discuss the book with students, they often ask me how I could 'stand by' in the face of so much suffering; the egregiousness wasn't my powerlessness but my surprise.