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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While our bipartisan establishment worships diversity, Trump saw Middle America recoiling from the demographic change brought about by Third World invasions. And he promised to curb them.
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It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races.
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I loved editing, and being a cookbook editor is a really a great job.
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If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as 'Why'd you start washing your hair every day?' and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you're going to start second-guessing yourself.
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Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.
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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.'
