Cynthia Kadohata Quotes
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
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I always drive like a madman.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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Ray Bradbury published his first story 29 years before I was born. He established himself as an international writer long before I arrived. When my mom was nine months pregnant with me, my father read Bradbury aloud to her as I listened intently, in utero. And I later became his biographer.
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I always joke that I want to be able to retire from boxing and still be able to look into the mirror without seeing scars all over my face. I love my sport, but I would rather not have to spend hours doing my makeup to cover up the memories once I retire.
Mandy Bujold -
I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.
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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.
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International rock star - gravy maker extraordinaire.
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The people I admire are Tim Buckley and John Martyn - singers that grew into themselves and were honest. John Martyn is one of the great soul singers because soul is not a genre; it's a feeling.
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p. 97-98: As quoted in: S.P. Sector (1997). A Study of Issues Relating to the Patentability of Biotechnological Subject Matter. Footnote 51.
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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
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You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine.
