Mary Augusta Ward Quotes
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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We don't want our players getting hurt.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
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I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
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I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.
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Black, white, yellow, brown - we wanted somebody who would do right by us. And I think because Obama was that person, whether he was black or white, he was chosen
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When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
