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Thomas Keneally Quotes

So I was very close to ordination. I was delighted to be ordained a deacon, which is the last step between, before becoming a priest. But then it all fell apart.

Thomas Keneally

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: October 7, 1935

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Step Priest Last Becoming Between

Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.

Jessica Valenti

Progress Gender Reason Idea Part

Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.

Ang Lee

Design Summer Go Way Expensive Film

Historians have often censored civil rights activists' commitment to economic issues and misrepresented the labor and civil rights movements as two separate, sometimes adversarial efforts. But civil rights and workers' rights are two sides of the same coin.

Tom Perez

Commitment Labor Sometimes Same Coin

In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.

Tom Brokaw

Anniversary Spring Prepare Northwest

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

Michelle Obama

Focus Me World Questions Lady Kind

What your foes do derives its significance or consequence from the way you react.

Joseph Brodsky

You React Way Significance Your

Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of power.

Jonathan Turley

Power Lying Jury Well Criminal Oath

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

Cheryl Strayed

Perspective Fun People Have Fun Go

I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.

Chuck D

Hate People Person West Like Record

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

Nick Rhodes

Force Exist MTV Had Reckoned Gotten

It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.

Luke Wilson

Dating Talking You Feeling Personal

I know that my energy falls and rises with the phases of the moon. I rest in the winter. I wake up at my own pace, and I blossom in the summer. Life is supposed to be a natural process.

Kerli

Life Winter Moon Wake Up Energy