"Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about."

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Mary Downing Hahn

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“The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.”
“Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.”
“Why do people do yoga? To clear their minds? I embrace the clutter in my head.”
“I don't really look at other people's moves because, when I'm on the field, I'm not going to remember them. It's just something that has a lot to do with instinct and vision and all those running back aspects you have. You put them all into a basket, and you just use them on the field and go out there and make plays.”
“The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective, legislation has now gone so far that it may well be asked what purpose or plan there is or what possible outcome there can be from a system that confines the native within a legal status that has more in common with that of a born idiot than of any other class of British subject.”
“But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.”

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“We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.”
“There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.”

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