Amanda Palmer Quotes

Neil Gaiman swooped into my life though another friend, Jason Webley, who knew we were fans of each other's work and introduced us via email. Neil and I, like me and Ben, just hit it off instantly.

Amanda Palmer

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When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school.

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Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy the most grasping ambition, and abounding in resources beyond all others, which only require to be fully developed to make us the greatest and most prosperous people on earth.

John C. Calhoun

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I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

Steve Valentine

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The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.

Judith Viorst

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We all go a little mad sometimes.

Joseph Stefano

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I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.

Ciaran Hinds

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Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.

Boris Johnson

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I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bryan Cogman

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The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

Bryant H. McGill

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All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they are all gone.

Pierre Boulez

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