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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.


Madeleine L'Engle

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LAURA MADELEINE I think it would be a genuine mistake if the focus today was on confrontation without thinking of th...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers as wri...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry pe...
MADELEINE STOWE I made it very clear that there were eight weeks (before the summit and) there had to be a speeding ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT As I have said, as President Clinton has said, he is prepared to have such a summit, but we have to ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I contin...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Her hands were broad and strong; the true pianist's sledgehammer hands, they had been called. They s...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE He was jovial and forthcoming, and interested and different from what we had all been led to believe...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are
MADELEINE L'ENGLE A life lived in chaos is an impossibility
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I am not prepared to go shuttling back and forth, ... I think that in contrast to other periods of A...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT The things you experience," she continued, "are written on your cells as memories and patterns, whic...
MADELEINE THIEN I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT Weary Blues.
MADELEINE PEYROUX It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
MADELEINE PEYROUX When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I foun...
MADELEINE PEYROUX It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial sup...
MADELEINE PEYROUX Things changed so quickly. The Atlantic jazz department just went from under us.
MADELEINE PEYROUX The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I think I've revived the costume-jewelry industry.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT If the issues are resolved, ... President Clinton is prepared to invite the parties to launch accele...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT The Red Cross is made up of volunteers. We have a meager staff, but the volunteers who pitch in when...
MADELEINE GASDIK determined to do the right thing, but in a pragmatic way. We defended human rights.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, &...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT cease long-range missile development, production and its export program.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT We have insisted that (North Korea) cease its long-range missile development, production and export ...
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT a very strong endorsement... of the basic objectives established (by the 19-nation NATO alliance) .....
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT