Marilynne Robinson Quotes
I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about to take up a place at Wadham College, but the war broke out, and he joined the Army instead.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.
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You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power pop term was coined. 'No Matter What" is always gonna be a great song on the radio. There?s probably two or three others off their records that are as cool like 'Day After Day'.
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I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.
