Marilynne Robinson Quotes
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'
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As soon as we started looking at them, we saw the most remarkable situation. My first thought was, 'Great guns! Something's gone wrong with the apparatus!' But then we got later North American tapes and everything seemed normal again.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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Yoga is the state where you are missing nothing.
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You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
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Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity.
