Dolly Wells Quotes
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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I am a just man.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
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I think it's amazing that I'm 45 and it is the most creatively successful year of my life.
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Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt-by forgetting.
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Most people think I'm from New York or something. I was, like, 70 pounds heavier than what I am, and I didn't get no girls... I was definitely more on the deep fried crab than I was on the baked chicken side.
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Deep down, I feel 'Doll & Em' is a love letter to our dads, because we adored them.
