Mark Twain Quotes
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
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Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.
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Frankly, it can be lonely at the top when it comes to driving diversity.
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Another two-bowl morning?" - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class
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Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet,From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,Lest I should fear, and fall, and miss Thee so,Who art not missed by any that entreat.
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
