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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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 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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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.
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There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
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I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.
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No ideas are harmed in the making of my books, by the way. All I do with my best ideas is run with them, fast as I can, taking notes and occasionally suggesting a left hand turn rather than the right hand one which might have taken us both over a precipice.
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I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
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Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
