"From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does."

-- Lois McMaster Bujold

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“The company was actually founded on creating earnings opportunities for women, even before it went into skincare, lipstick, and fragrance. The founding Avon principle, before women could vote and when basically only men were working, was to allow women to get out of their homes and to create an entrepreneurship opportunity for them.”
“Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.”
“In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1980). “Passages about Earth: An Exploration of the New Planetary Culture”, HarperCollins
“When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I just always wanted to be a baseball announcer. I'm a huge Mets fan, and I wanted to be the next Bob Murphy. As far as careers go, that was the first career that I really thought about. Well, before that, I wanted to be a Mello Yello truck driver.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.”
“To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.”

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