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Chelsea Manning Quotes

Suffrage is not a right afforded to everyone. Rather, voting is a privilege in the United States - and a hard-earned privilege at that.

Chelsea Manning

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: criminal
Nationality: american
Birth: December 17, 1987

Topics

Voting Privilege Right Everyone

I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam.

Children Child Poverty Decade Years

My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.

Nobody First Adult Books Kids Four

I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.

Love Great Fire People Believe Gun

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.

Mother Me Doctor Wanted

I eat well. I don't really, I guess, like, steam my own food and cook my own food in advance. I enjoy food, but I just don't make bad decisions.

Food Decisions Enjoy Bad My Own Eat

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

Culture I Am American Values Know

I play guitar and I love the Beatles and melodic music.

Love Music Guitar Play Beatles

For a while, I just sang at a steakhouse. I would go from table to table and really just survived on tips.

Table Go Just Would Tips Really

I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a real doctor... I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you'd think they'd be in nature.

Nature Doctor Think Thought You Out

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

Me Say Possible Try Question Going

While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.

Beauty Great Grateful Childhood Me

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

Rosanna Arquette

Love Music Sad Great Me Musicians

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