Emily Bronte Quotes
I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
Quotes to Explore
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.
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Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.
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I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
