Blake Lively Quotes
I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I have a pig valve.
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John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.
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I mean the future has become old fashioned.
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I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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My aunt was Frances Hodges, who in the Fifties was the editor of 'Seventeen' and later one of the creators of 'Mademoiselle.' She was my Auntie Mame; she loved culture. She was a Quaker, but she became a milliner against all Quaker logic - they feel that fashion and art are vanities - because she loved fashion.
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I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.
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To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.
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I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.
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I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.
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I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.
