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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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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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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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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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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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.
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I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
