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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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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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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Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf.
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The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
