Rita Williams-Garcia quotes
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“Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard.”
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“mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.”
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“A name is important. It isn't something you drop in the litter basket or on the ground. Your name is now people know you. The very mention of your name makes a picture spring to mind, whether it's a picture of clashing fists or a mighty mountain that can't be knocked down. Your name is who you are and how you're known even when you do something great or something dumb.”
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“We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.”
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“I'm very objective about what I want to have happen to my protagonists and where that has to come from. On one hand, it does help me that I had a mother who might have taken the last dollar and bought a pack of cigarettes or something, but I also had a mother who exposed me to art, music, other religions, different foods. My mother was very adventurous in her own way, so she fed the part of me that was going to grow up to be a writer. But there's always, too, the opposite response that helps me to create.”
-- Rita Williams-GarciaSource : Source: www.hbook.com
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“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”
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“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”
Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes
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“A treasure...at the top of any list of fantasy to be cherished.”
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”
Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
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“Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion”
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