L. Frank Baum Quotes
I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Relatively, a very small percentage of betting takes place on hockey and even baseball because of the nature of the game and the scoring.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
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Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.
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One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.
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I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.
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I love being toned and having muscle; it's so sexy and beautiful. And I owe it 100 percent to yoga.
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Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.
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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
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Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
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It's hard to make small investments when you're a billion-dollar fund.
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So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.
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I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses.
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You cannot stop the men and women of the FBI from doing the right thing, protecting the American people and upholding the Constitution.
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I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.
