Ellen Glasgow Quotes
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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I've been vegetarian for virtually all of my adult life, and I do adopt a very strict health regime.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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I don't really know what the prerequisites are for Bollywood, but I do believe I can be successful in anything I choose to do.
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Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
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The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.
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Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here.
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
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At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.
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Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentle.
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The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
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The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.
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Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me.
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Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
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As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
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What attracted me the most of all to the detective story, was the protective covering offered to the author.
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I have no favors to pay back.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
