Connie Willis Quotes
'What’s going on?' I whispered to Gina.'Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don’t have enough to do,' she murmured back. 'So they’ve invented a new acronym.'
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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How lucky am I?
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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I received free health care.
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Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way.
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Your greatest need is not a spouse. Your greatest need is to be delivered from the wrath of God - and that has already been accomplished for you through the death and resurrection of Christ. So why doubt that God will provide a much, much lesser need? Trust His sovereignty, trust His wisdom, trust His love.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
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'What’s going on?' I whispered to Gina.'Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don’t have enough to do,' she murmured back. 'So they’ve invented a new acronym.'
