Crescent Dragonwagon Quotes
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I like to discover new things.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.
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No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.
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'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
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But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.
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At this point in my career, Apollo 13 is a million light years away.
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Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive.
