Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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I do not like violence.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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If he does not sue, he is a drug user, a repeat steroid user, a knowing steroid user. He has to sue for everything that the next 50 years of merchandising is worth.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
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I would always rather be happy than dignified.
