Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

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• You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Me
  • Act
  • Course

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Consideration

• I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.

  

  Oliver North
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Run
  • Fast
  • Slow

• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Bad
  • You
  • Race

• Midi is my hobby.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Hobby

• I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Think
  • Support
  • Examination

• I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • House
  • Paris
  • Now

• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Time
  • Years
  • Period

• If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • God
  • Me
  • Looks

• 'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Art
  • War
  • Story

• It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Working

• I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Joke

• Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Happiness
  • Scratch
  • Itch

• From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest kinds of people because they are idolized by their peers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Country
  • School

• I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.

  

  Larry Craig
  • People
  • Work
  • Pool

• The Beatles may be more popular than Jesus but heavy cats like Chairman Mao, Uncle Ho, and beautiful long-haired Che Guevara are more popular than The Beatles.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Long
  • May
  • Beautiful

• Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Hope
  • Wish

• You know, it's going to be a really long tour, and well, I guess I'll see what happens with A Perfect Circle, 'cause they do other projects too, and I don't know. I hope I can always do a lot of different things, do 'em well.

  

  James Iha The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Different
  • Long
  • Hope

• I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.

  

  E. L. James
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

  

  Mary Augusta Ward
  • Hope
  • Interesting