Charlotte Mary Yonge Quotes
If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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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 did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.
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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
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How can you trust a man who can talk for 5 minutes and you cant understand a sentence of it!
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.
