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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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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All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the best thing to do was to tell everyone I worked with that I'm just shy. People are not mind readers - you need to let them know.
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I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
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Whatever your business is, we all have a drama going on in our own lives. We're all unhappy about something. You have sickness, marital problems, a myriad of things going wrong in everybody's life. You have to deal with those things right away. You have to get their full concentration on football. I'd like to be able to communicate even more with my players when things aren't going bad, but it's just like everything else in life. The problems take over, and you wind up chasing the problems. I'd say handling people is the most important thing you do as a coach. Dealing with people, really, is all football is.
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If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.
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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.'
