Margaret Atwood Quotes

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Margaret Atwood

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PowerTimeNowInsideHoldKnee

Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s.

Melvyn Bragg

PeopleYouBackHugKnowAustralia

In my dressing room, you'll definitely find some Starbursts and Skittles. I have a lot of candles that remind me of home, and a humidifier for my voice. I also have some digital Kodak albums where I have pictures of my friends and family.

Trey Songz

FamilyHomeFriends And FamilyMe

These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

Mick Taylor

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I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

Michael Ondaatje

EndingRealSeeClosureSenseAny

When my father died, I was 21, and he'd been sick for a few years. He changed during his illness. He kind of softened during it.

Luanne Rice

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So, this war is against the Islam that the West does not control.

Louis Farrakhan

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Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

Joyce Carol Oates

PeopleHurtI CanLikeMostVery

Go out into the world with your passion and love for what you do, and just never give up.

Dianne Reeves

LoveNever Give UpPassionWorldYou

My mother cared a lot about clothes. It was a point of friction because when I was a teenager, and I only wanted to wear my father's shirts, and I never wanted to wear makeup, she would say: 'Put on lipstick.' That was her thing.

Deborah Tannen

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For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

ASAP Rocky

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My big subject as a historian is how Americans divide themselves. What are the divisions that structure our political lives. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were perfect foils for that story.

Rick Perlstein

StoryPoliticalPerfectStructure

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.

Richard O'Brien

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