Dolley Madison Quotes
At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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Acting is in your soul.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
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We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology.
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Every Bass Communion track is based on a single sound source. Increasingly I find that I'm really interested in taking a particular sound and it's almost like solving a problem. If I have a sound, the problem is how can I create a piece of music from this one sound source?
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The great scientists have been occupied with values—it is only their vulgar followers who think they are not. If scientists like Descartes, Newton, Einstein, Darwin, and Freud don’t “look deeply into experience,” what do they do? They have imaginations as powerful as any poet’s and some of them were first-rate writers as well. How do you draw the line between Walden and The Voyage of the Beagle? The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations—like that of the artistic imagination.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
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At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.
