Mary Augusta Ward Quotes
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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At the end of your twenties, you realize you are inherently flawed, and that's great, and that's what makes you dynamic.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
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The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'
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I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.
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The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
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I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
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I've always been a dreamer.
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Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.
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All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
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Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
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Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty.____ This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.
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Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
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It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
