Dana Stabenow Quotes

#1. If cyberspace can screw with you, it will.

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#2. I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.

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#3. Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?"
"I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends."
"You mean like Alaska?

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#4. Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

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#5. At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.

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#6. Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritating, and a waste of the money she had just sent them.

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#7. Once in a while, I like to polish my halo by taking on a case pro bono.

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#8. The postmistress was a large, zaftig woman with long, grayish blond hair and a floating, floral style of dress.

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#9. When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.

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#10. That's some f***ing doorman you've got there, Ms. Shugak.

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#11. Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.

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#12. Everything change with mine, Katya.

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#13. My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.

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#14. I've been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.

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#15. We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already.
Chopper Jim Chopin

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#16. I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.

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#17. The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.

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#18. sartorial splendor with a long, speculative survey

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#19. To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

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#20. Suicide by Alaska.

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#21. Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

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#22. The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.

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#23. The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

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#24. How come you're always so mean?
Howie Katelnikof

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#25. Three-hour layover in Seattle. If you were flying Alaska Airlines and you wanted to go to hell you had to fly through Seattle to get there.

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