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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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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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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Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
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There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
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One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.
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I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.
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Labor, and the ability to earn one's own way, is central to dignity and, indeed, to vocation. Christians should seek to broaden the private economy to include more individuals in remunerative labor.
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.