Mary Augusta Ward Quotes
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
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I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.
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Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, but in a properly big and important way. My perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.
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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
