- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
He or She Quotes
Language that leaves room for everyone.
Casting a lead role often depends on a track record built over time, regardless of who happens to have earned it. That fairness echoes through our Equality collection.
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- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and quiet, and isn't entitled to perfect conditions or the perfect spot.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That keeps you alive in the public mind and gives a push to your older books.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each Dreamer in our country is more than a mere statistic; he or she is a proud American in everything but official documentation.
- Better Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The image of an actor plays a huge role in deciding if he or she can experiment with roles.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
No parent should have their child die before he or she does.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
With an extraordinary amount of federal employees authorized to use 100% official time on behalf of their union, the federal government loses the immensely valuable civil service for which he or she was originally hired to perform.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, population is a huge problem - birth rates are too high. And in order to take care of the environment, we have to make sure that every child that comes here, that arrives, knows that he or she is welcome, is going to be cared for and honored.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020