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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This is more like a reflection of past and present, and maybe the future, I’m not a soothsayer; however, I don't feel like I took every sound and put them all into one or anything like that. It’s just a reflection of all the great opportunities I’ve been lucky enough to have in Nashville, and other things that didn’t go as well and things that have.
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Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
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I would have loved to do 'Alice in Wonderland.' Being a 'Bond' girl would always be fun. We had a lot of action in 'Eclipse' and I'd definitely like to continue down the action road. I want to do a romantic period piece, but those are really hard to get made because they're very expensive and there's not a huge demographic.
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I'm a vegetarian, but my family isn't. If I can keep everything in my house healthy, I don't have to worry as much when I eat out.
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White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
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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.
