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Ellen Ullman Quotes

Through the miracle of natural genetic recombination, each child, with the sole exception of an identical twin, is conceived as a unique being. Even the atmosphere of the womb works its subtle changes, and by the time we emerge into the light, we are our own persons.

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Time Light Child Unique Changes Own

When I'm surfing, I'm sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

Matthew McConaughey

Water Start Thinking Upset Out Sure

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

Pressure Enjoy Say More Sense Would

I actually went to law school with Jim Comey. We were in the same class, and he was respected by our classmates just like he was respected by the agents that he supervised.

School Law Class Classmates Same He

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.

Robert Foster Bennett

End Long Worth Situation Difficult

The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them.

Roy Lichtenstein

Work People Looking Thought Museums

I love characters who are kind of haunted by their pasts, who struggle on despite their flaws, knowing that, at the end of the day, they're not going to shuffle off to those pearly gates.

Love Day Struggle End Of The Day End

Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.

Space Think Fate Loss Media You

Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.

Best Wine Possible Long-Term Our

I don't have the best family life. I'm not going to have a sob story and be like, my parents abandoned me, because they didn't. But they also are not that present. When I'm alone, I'm alone. I don't have anybody to call, and so I have to create meaning from myself.

Life Family Alone Myself Best Me

I just survived a Disney career without singing. I don't want to, like, fall back in. I feel like I escaped, so if we could avoid it for as long as possible, that would be great.

Great Singing Feel Long Fall Career

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

Life Me Young Aware Read Made

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Never Give Up Dreams Freedom You Up

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