"To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me."

-- Leslie Marmon Silko

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“When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress”
“The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.”
“In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life”
“One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.”
“Solo homers usually come with no one on base.”
“I come from a martial arts background so kicking and punching and using your hands and your feet is more of the art that I was taught.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Wishing you a great journey.”

Source : "Columbia: what the papers say" by Sarah Left, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2003.
“I watch a lot of TV and I got some new hair products.”

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