Blake Lively Quotes
I'm always the person who's taking everyone else's kid and putting them on my hip, so I've kinda always been a mama.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
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If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.
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Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.
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To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.
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The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
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God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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Poland reminds us that sometimes the smallest steps, however imperfect, can ultimately tear down walls, can ultimately transform the world.
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I'm an ass-kicking fat kid.
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Gertrude Johnson could feel no real respect for, no real interest in, anybody who wasn't a writer. For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren't.
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America was changing. I had a feeling of destiny and I was riding the changes... My consciousness was beginning to change, too, change and stretch.
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As parents and teachers we need to bring up more of our children with generosity of spirit.
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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.
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Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.
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When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
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A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
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I'm always the person who's taking everyone else's kid and putting them on my hip, so I've kinda always been a mama.
