Marilynne Robinson Quotes
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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Sometimes you just need to give in to the yuckiness of the day, throw your psychic hands up in the air and trust that tomorrow will be an improvement.
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The Finnish way of dealing with Russia, whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what we don't like, where the red line is.
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All I know is that my fans have been really wonderful and affectionate.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Tak Fujimoto and I, when we started getting enough of a budget where we could afford the right lenses - 'cause we started out doing low-budget pictures together - we started experimenting with this subjective camera thing. And we kind of fell in love with the idea of using that as our close-up.
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Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.
