Lucille Roybal-Allard Quotes

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

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WomenLiveAgeChildrenExperience

Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.

Jill Paton Walsh

LifeJobTravelSolitudeLongQuiet

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.

John Burnside

AnimalsTrueWildRealEncounter

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

Ann-Marie Campbell

LoveThinkLearnThroughComplex

Your number one job as a comedian is to be aware. You're supposed to understand the temperature in the room more than anyone on the planet - that's the whole craft of comedy.

Michael Che

JobComedyYouUnderstandCraft

I didn't think it would be possible for me to do music professionally. I was afraid to speak up and say I wanted to become a musician.

Sigrid

MusicMeSpeakThinkSayPossible

When you have to negotiate for survival, and you have to know how to read rooms, and you have to know who the bad guys in the rooms are - who has the gun in their pocket, who's just going to brandish it, and who's going to actually pull the trigger. So I think that's just a natural instinct that comes with coming from where I come from.

Troy Carter

GunThinkSurvivalYouBadKnow

First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

SimpleAmazingFamousYouSword

I'm more into, like, colour than, like, the type of car and stuff. I don't know much about cars, so I'm just more into picking the right color.

Miranda Cosgrove

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The themes in 'Violet' are universal: accepting yourself with all of your flaws, moving on, and the forgiveness and freedom that comes along with that.

Joshua Henry

ForgivenessFreedomMoving OnMoving

Certain characteristics about 'Marbury v. Madison' are, I think, indisputable. Marbury was the first Supreme Court decision ever to strike down an act of Congress as unconstitutional. Marbury stands for the authority of the Supreme Court to have and to exercise that power.

Cliff Sloan

PowerDecisionThinkExerciseDown

Out in Hollywood, you get the feeling when people are talking to you, that they are looking right past you - like they're looking to see who else they can talk to.

Brad Paisley

PastPeopleLookingTalkingYouSee

If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Pico Iyer

CommunicationMusicEndLoseWill

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