Letters Quotes - Page 29

• I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

  Jane Alison

  Writing, Underestimate

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• 169 House Democrats signed a letter to the President-elect [Donald Trump] urging him to "rescind this appointment [of Steve Bannon ] immediately."

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  House, President, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo things that girls don't want to talk about, but once we do we realize we're not alone.

  Lily Collins

  Girl, Book, Today

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• In all seriousness, the first book [The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year] was such a love letter to Wacha, that I think people will be interested and surprised to see that I had some challenges with him in year two.

  Andy Cohen

  Book, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I suppose I had developed a sense of reverence for the locations he described in his memoirs and letters - the forts and the high emplacements. I had expected them to have been preserved in some way.

  Chris Cleave

  Tree, Grandfather, Location

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• The flaw is the business plan - digging up and burning way more carbon than physics says we can deal with. So, I suppose it's some kind of mid-point between writing them nice letters asking them to stop and figuring out a way to take down the entire system- which I don't have any idea how to do.

  Bill McKibben

  Nice, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and based upon his reading of the letter to the Hebrews in particular, is that Christ offers up his life and death as a penitential act on our behalf, rather than as a punishment in our stead.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Reading, Punishment, Ideas

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of each, upper and lower case. Punctuation and alternate characters and numbers - let's not forget numbers - can add another 40 or so.

  Michael Bierut

  Character, Ideas, Two

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• The studies I've seen about readability and legibility tend to focus on a specific set of metrics: size, not just the point size, but things like the size of the lower case letters as a proportion of the overall letter height, and line length. People simply can't read really small type set in really long lines.

  Michael Bierut

  Long, People, Focus

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• Recognition, gratefulness exist.[ Speech for the Nobel Prize] is to show that this is what has come from what [Albert Camus] teacher did for him. And also throughout the world there are Monsieur Germains [his old schoolteacher] everywhere. That's why I published the letters, so that he could have a place in the work.

  Catherine Camus

  Teacher, Old School, World

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• If he says that, if he wins, he's going to, you know, dismantle the libel laws and come after the newspapers, I feel like we should take him at his word. This is the same man who has been writing letters to people who he's, you know, bared a grudge against for 20 years. So if Donald Trump says that, I don't know why you wouldn't want to believe him.

  Trevor Noah

  Believe, Writing, Winning

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• I hadn't heard the Gary Cooper thing so I'm not grounded now. I feel pretty good. That's incredibly nice. When I met Robin [Williams] at the read-through, I remember when he came in, I was so nervous meeting him for the first time is incredible because I did actually write him a letter when I was a kid and told him he was my favorite actor.

  John Krasinski

  Nice, Writing, Kids

  "Mandy Moore and John Krasinski Interview - LICENSE TO WED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2007.

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• I just so desperately wanted to be published in New Yorker, and I'd so desperately try to get something in it. But I'd always get nice letters back telling me that Mr. Shawn [William Shawn, the New Yorker's editor from 1952 to 1987] just didn't like this or didn't like that about what I submitted.

  Kevin Sessums

  Nice, Editors, Trying

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• [Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us, that he was so disappointed in his straight friends because of AIDS and everything. He wrote the letter around March. And in it he wrote, "I usually go to the Trillins for Christmas, but I just couldn't do it this year."

  Kevin Sessums

  Yale, Years, President

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• Write letters to your editors, write to your members of Congress, and write to your news stations.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Writing, Editors, News

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

  Cleve Jones

  Writing, School, Direct Action

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be on his knees morning and night praying to Allah that the Americans will invade." And, of course, he was, because nothing more advanced his cause - the cause of terrorism - than the invasion of Iraq. It was an absurdity.

  Bob Hawke

  Morning, Night, Iraq

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Someday I would love to write about Vincent van Gogh - his paintings and letters continue to inspire me very much. But it remains hard to find the time and inner rest to write.

  Henri Nouwen

  Writing, Inspire, Painting

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• I had a song called "Folsom Prison Blues" that was a hit just before "I Walk The Line." And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Writing, Texas

  Source: wrvo.org

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• Scope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies.

  Gaspar Noe

  Tvs, Scope, Bigs

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• When John Adams - when - James Madison was writing - pretty much writing the Constitution, he got a letter from Thomas Jefferson, who was then-ambassador to France. And Jefferson said - I am paraphrasing - `Do not forget to keep habeas corpus and strengthen it.' That - in - that's the oldest English-speaking right. It goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215.

  Nat Hentoff

  Writing, Ambassadors, France

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I got a letter one day from somebody saying, `You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker is doing to your own paper [The Voice]?' And my 10-year-old son Tom, now with Williams & Connelly, put in a legal opinion, not - an opinion from the back of the car saying, `You know why? What are you, afraid?' So I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that Felker is destroying this paper.

  Nat Hentoff

  Son, Years, Voice

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I'll have 15 letters today from mostly young kids who don't like what's going on and want to do something about it, and [they ask me] if I can give them some advice as to what they should do, or can I tell them what to read or something.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.iww.org

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• We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.

  Clara Jeffery

  Art, Struggle, Video

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I reached out to [Brett Favre] early on; sent him some of my books and a letter. Then I had two or three arranged times with him, and was blown off. Then I sent him another letter, and he sent me a text, explaining that he didn't wish to talk. I'm not mad - it's his right, obviously. Plus, his family members were amazingly open and cool.

  Jeff Pearlman

  Book, Two, Mad

  Source: lombardiave.com

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