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I left Arsenal because I wanted to develop and learn as a player and get to experience a new club.

I was always making new friends, then losing them.

People are so forthcoming with their opinions in America, and it's not the same in Canada. People are more reserved... They hold their cards closer, and they're very, very polite.

I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.

It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when 'The Magic Barrel' was published and I first read it.

If you just looked up where we were from and you looked at what we looked like, it'd be very easy to assume a lot of things about us. Some of those things might even be true. But I don't think we...

I've loved the RuPaul model of drag, where you're an amazing drag queen, you're a smart and savvy business person, and you use those together to keep drag at the forefront of what people are talking...

If you go to any elementary school classroom in Texas, some kids in there are going to be named either Austin, Dallas or Houston.

She poured the water, arranged some bread near enough the embers to scorch but not catch fire, and looked up at Little John. She was so accustomed to his step, to his bulk, that it took a moment to...

My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.

The best government is not the one that you can serve in the longest, but the government that's closest to the people.

You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't...

While I don't find Christmas all that difficult, what I do find difficult is New Year's Eve.

You don't always have to be a leader and be as vocal as I am. I'm sure some people would love it if I didn't talk as much as I did.

As a strong believer that Brexit is a very damaging mistake that becomes more obvious every day, I see sound democratic reasons for asking the electorate to confirm what it wants to do.

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as...

You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.

I declare to goodness, I don't know but sometimes I believe in women's rights. If women were voting and making laws, I believe they'd have better sense. {Mrs. McKee to Laura, regarding homesteading...

once that each of us is the author of our own lives? That we are responsible for what we are? For the deeds, both good and bad, that we do?

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

I'm much more indecisive and a people-pleaser than someone who's willing to step into the firing line.

There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.

One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.

Subjugation of women and of the Earth are one and the same.

He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes. Star

The stars and stripes were fluttering bright against the rain, clear blue overhead, and their minds were saying the words before their ears heard them.

She thought to herself, This is now. She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can...

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

I want to do what I feel in my soul. My soul won't lead me wrong.

I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they're really funny, all the ways they describe the most depressing things.

To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.