Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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I am the freest author in the world.
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Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.
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Only the young die good.
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Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
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I am happy because I am no longer an author.
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You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.
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And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.
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One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.
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We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.
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It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star Game and an old timer's game.
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An author departs, he does not die.
