Publilius Syrus Quotes
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.
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All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
Ford Frick -
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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Yum-O! I say this if something is so good that 'yum' just isn't enough of an exclamation. The accent is on the 'O' as in, 'Oh! That is so good!'
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In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
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I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
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They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.
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You can make movies and not particularly get along with the people you're working with but, when they say 'Action,' your job is to make it look like you're in love.
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In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one, even though I loved to make up stories inside my head.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Velox consilium sequitur paenitentia.
