Deborah Ellis Quotes

There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war is any less important than that.

Deborah Ellis

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ChildrenWarParentsThinkTalking

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

Jim Bakker

HonorRememberYouKnowLineGuard

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

Joan Sutherland

YourselfYouListenOutGotGet

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

John Adams

GovernmentBetterNowThreeYears

California is beautiful to look at, but you can't be a part of it like you can in Michigan.

Jennifer Granholm

BeautifulYouLookCaliforniaLike

Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for 'Pinocchio' and 'Snow White' that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.

Robert Stromberg

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I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet.

Miguel Syjuco

PowerDayJobMedicalWritingTreat

If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.

Chris Eigeman

PeopleThinkCareFeelOpinions

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

China Mieville

TodayScienceBestThinkInteresting

Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.

Chuck Palahniuk

StoryMindsEverythingWhereGet

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

Bruce Sterling

ShadowStartDataYouInformation

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

Suraj Sharma

GoodTreeSchoolThoughtActorTwo

Bret and I were friends, but we were young, and we made bad decisions. We couldn't see outside the wrestling business. It was the end-all, be-all. You were in that box constantly, so that's all you thought about. It affects your decision-making.

Shawn Michaels

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