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“I had a lot of great lakes of ignorance that I was up against, I would write what I knew in almost like islands that were rising up out of the oceans. Then I would take time off and read, sometimes for months, then I would write more of what I knew, and saw what I could see, as much as the story as I could see. And then at a certain point I had to write out what I thought was the plot because it was so hard to keep it all together in my head. And then I started to write in a more linear way.”
Source : "Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.
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“I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.”
Source : “The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.
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“I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.”
Source : "After All: The Autobiography of Norman Angell". Book by Norman Angell, 1951.
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“I want to see America thrive. I want to see all different families here succeed.”
Source : "Congresswoman-Elect Grace Meng On 'Girl Power'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 9, 2012.
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“Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.”
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“Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws . Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods , itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star , to adore the Saviour of the world in His cradle.”
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“More than just a big adrenalin rush, it's more like, 'let's explore what's possible in our sport'.”
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“When we change the way we think, we change our lives. What most people do not understand is how powerful our thinking is and how involved it is in our health.”