Alexis Wright Quotes

English is my language because of the history, and what I try to do - and I did that in 'Carpentaria' in particular - is to write in the way we tell stories and in the voice of our own people and our own way of speaking.

Alexis Wright

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People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

John Goodman

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A sense of urgency is motivating.

Jen Sincero

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I fell in love with Erica Kane the summer before my freshman year of high school. Like all red-blooded teen American boys, I'd come home from water polo practice and eat a box of Entenmann's Pop'Ems donut holes in front of the TV while obsessively fawning over 'All My Children' and Erica, her clothes, and her narcissistic attitude.

Andy Cohen

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I don't like hype cluttering art.

Skrillex

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'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

Robert Fulghum

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What is so good about 'Gavin and Stacey' is that it is very real, Welsh, and well written.

Ronnie Corbett

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I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.

Miguel

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I don't recall exactly when I first began reading about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery, but I suspect that it was in fourth grade.

Joseph Bruchac

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If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for more people than he could in any other way.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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It's business inside the ring, but outside it, it's friendship and brotherhood. I try to do that with all my opponents.

Joseph Parker

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When I watch a movie that I've been in, I'm watching it, but I usually remember what I was doing at that time, what was going on in my life.

Dennis Quaid

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I like girls who aren't so la-di-da. L.A. is so la-di-da.

Chris Evans

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