Ellen Glasgow Quotes
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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Avian and pandemic influenza are posing a greater challenge to the world than any previous emerging infectious diseases.
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A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.
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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
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They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.
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The variable that really boosts your performance is the actors around you.
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No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
