Laura Miller
Laura Miller
Laura Millerserved as mayor of Dallas, Texasfrom 2002 through 2007. She did not run for re-election in the 2007 mayoral race. She was the third woman to serve as mayor of Dallas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 November 1958
CountryUnited States of America
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You've got to take off some of the old ugly facades and let there be glass and light. If you take the skin off and restore it, it's beautiful.
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Not all these people are eligible to be in apartments on their own, ... We found some sex offenders and some felons, people who have no credit at all.
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Due to Mr. Lee's actions on the Plan Commission, the public's trust has been lost,
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It also would help, of course, if we had the movie shot here, so we could change some of the old ?Dallas? TV show stereotypes that have lasted all these years.
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It got to the point that you had Fisher on one side of the road and Potashnik on the other side of the road fighting about which one would get his deal done, ... This is when everything went a little crazy.
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A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.
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The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with...
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People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.
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We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again.
life-and-love mean drunk
Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn't mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating.
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Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.
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Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November.
butterfly feelings flying
It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.
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Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.