Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body.
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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
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The best answer and the best way forward to young women out there who want to get ahead is work your tail off. Work harder than everybody. Be better than everybody else. Do better. Try harder.
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Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
