Adrienne Clarkson Quotes
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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There is no one true church.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
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I'm an inventor.
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Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.
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Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.
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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.
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In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question.
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Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.
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Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
