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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We like lists because we don't want to die.
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I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.
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I know there are a lot of tough stories out there about Sinatra, but he was so sweet to Bobby and me. He even had us replace him one night in the main room. He didn't get Sammy or Dean; he said, 'I want the kids to do it.' Man, what an honor.
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The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
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Of all the unhappiness I went through, you must know I wouldn't live a moment of my life differently for what I have now. Would I do it all again? I wouldn't want to, but if it got me to the same place, yeah, I'd do it. Because I realize now that God would not give more than I could handle.
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An author departs, he does not die.
