Mary Augusta Ward Quotes
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.
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I am glad I have given my family the life I wanted for them. That is my responsibility.
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As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.
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We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.
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Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
